Codford Timeline

4000-2500BC Neolithic
2500-800BC Bronze Age-Codford Circle/ Barrows
800BC- AD43 Iron Age
43-410 Romano British-Settlements
Saxon- 901 Codan ford /Shaft/Burial
Normans-1086 Domesday
1252 Charter for Market
1317 Charter for Hermit
1500 Medieval Chalice
1597 Baptism Records
1620 Marriage Records
1679 Burial Records
1778 Congregational Chapel Founded
1801 First Census
1808 Harry Biggs – Lord of the Manor
1810 St Peter’s Enclosure
1815 Ashton Giffard Enclosure
1820’s ‘Rural Rides’
1840’s Water Meadows
1841 St Peters School Opened
1844 St Mary’s Enclosure
1875 St Mary’s School Opened
1914 WWI
1916 New Zealand General Hospital/ Badge
1922 First Radio Broadcast
1924 Woman’s Institute Formed
1926/28 Parish’s United
1934 First Parish Council
1937 Foot & Mouth Outbreak
1939 WWII
1941 6th Guards Armoured Brigade
1943 British 11th Armoured /US 3rd Armored Division
1944 3rd Armored Leave After D Day
1949 Playing Field Conveyed to Village
1951 First Piped Water
1956 Railway Station Closed For Passengers
1960 Railway Station Closed For Freight
1963 Theatre Club Purchase Woolstore
1987 Public Inquiry For Codford By Pass
1990 By Pass Opened
1993 New Village Hall Opened