Gomeldon

{{Short description|Village in Wiltshire, England}}

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Gomeldon is a small village in the valley of the River Bourne in Wiltshire,{{cite web|title=Villages celebrate in style|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/villages/jubilee_celebrations.shtml|website=BBC - Wiltshire|access-date=18 December 2015|date=17 May 2002}} England, in the civil parish of Idmiston. It lies about {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} north-east of Salisbury, between Winterbourne Gunner and Porton, and as of 2012 its population was estimated at 200.

There is a primary school{{cite web|title=Gomeldon Primary School, Idmiston|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/School/Details/1030|access-date=12 February 2021|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council}} and, although there is no station, the main railway line to London passes through the village.{{cite web|website=Wiltshire Community History|title=Idmiston|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/124|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=12 November 2015}}

Gomeldon was a village in medieval times.{{cite book|author=John Hare|title=A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KC4wN9W-jV4C&pg=PA30|year=2011|publisher=Univ of Hertfordshire Press|isbn=978-1-902806-85-3|pages=30–}}{{cite book|author=Christopher Dyer|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1s09shL69CgC&pg=PA155|title=Everyday Life in Medieval England|date=2001|publisher=A&C Black|year=|isbn=978-0-8264-1982-8|location=|pages=155–}} Ten buildings on the ancient village site south-west of the school, between the modern village and the river, were excavated in the 1960s, and a report published by Salisbury Museum.{{cite book|author1=John Musty|author2=David J. Algar|title=The Excavations at the Deserted Medieval Village Site of Gomeldon, Near Salisbury, Wiltshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agzUYgEACAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Salisbury Museum}}{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=1967|title=Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire, 1966|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137998#page/143/mode/1up|journal=Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine|volume=62|pages=129–130|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} The site of the deserted village is designated as a scheduled monument.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1003041|desc=Gomeldon deserted village|access-date=26 September 2022}}

In 1821 the population was 20, and in 1831 there were 48 inhabitants. In 1868 it was a small hamlet in the parish of Idmiston.[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Idmiston/ GENUKI: Idmiston]