Landford

Evidence of prehistoric activity includes a bell barrow and two bowl barrows from the Bronze Age;{{National Heritage List for England|num=1005593|desc=Landford Common round barrows|access-date=23 December 2017}} and earthworks known as Castle Copse Camp, late Bronze or early Iron Age.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1004755|desc=Castle Copse camp|access-date=23 December 2017|fewer-links=yes}}

The Domesday Book of 1068 recorded Landford as a settlement in the ancient hundred of Frustfield, with six households and a mill.{{OpenDomesday|SU2620|landford|Landford}} Woodland in the area continued to be part of the royal forest of Melchet until 1614, when James I granted the forest to Sir Lawrence Hyde.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol4/pp391-433|title=Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 4: Royal forests|year=1959|editor-last=Crittall|editor-first=Elizabeth|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|access-date=24 December 2017}}

Plaitford village, just east of Landford, was part of the parish until it was transferred to Hampshire in 1895.{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp542-543|title=Victoria County History – Hampshire – Parishes: Plaitford|last=|first=|year=1911|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 December 2017}} A community governance review effective 1 April 2017 transferred the eastern portion of Redlynch parish to Landford. The area transferred includes the settlements of Nomansland and Hamptworth.{{Cite web|url=https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/communitygovernancereview.htm|title=The Wiltshire Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2016|last=|first=|date=22 December 2016|website=Wiltshire Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=21 December 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.landfordparishcouncil.org.uk/nomansland-hamptworth-join-landford|title=Landford Parish council with Nomansland & Hamptworth|last=|first=|date=|website=Landford Parish Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=21 December 2017}}

The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew is Grade II* listed{{NHLE|num=1184023|desc=Church of St Andrew, Landford|access-date=19 February 2015}} and was built in 1858 to designs by the Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield.{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |authorlink1=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Cherry |first2=Bridget (revision) |title=The Buildings of England: Wiltshire |year=1975 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071026-4 |pages=291}}{{cite web|title=Church of St. Andrew, Landford|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Church/Details/715|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=19 February 2015}}

Landford Manor dates from the 17th century and is Grade II* listed.{{NHLE|num=1300292|desc=Landford Manor, Landford|access-date=19 February 2015}}

Wickets Green Farmhouse dates from the 16th century{{National Heritage List for England|num=1023917|desc=Wickets Green Farmhouse|access-date=7 May 2018|fewer-links=yes}} and has connections with the family of Lord Nelson.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}} Landford Wood Mission Hall, a timber building with a tiled roof, was erected in 1899 at the expense of Louisa Baring, Lady Ashburton.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1471898|desc=Landford Wood Mission Hall|access-date=22 November 2020|fewer-links=yes}}{{Cite web|last=Gibson|first=Gemma|date=17 November 2020|title=Hall with 'outstanding historic interest' granted protection with new status|url=https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18876962.landford-wood-mission-hall-near-salisbury-grade-ii-listed/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-22|website=Salisbury Journal|language=en}}

Nigel Anderson (1920–2008) inherited the Hamptworth estate in 1952.{{Cite web|last=Barton|first=Kirsty|date=4 June 2008|title=Former High Sheriff dies at 88|url=https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2317716.former-high-sheriff-dies-at-88/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-22|website=Salisbury Journal|language=en}} He was chairman of Wiltshire County Council from 1979 to 1983 and High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1991.

There is a public house, the Landford Poacher,[http://www.thelandfordpoacher.com/ The Landford Poacher] and a village shop and post office, Landford Stores. The village used to have a bakery (closed in 2007), and a farm shop on Glebe Lane (closed in 2024).

The local school is the New Forest Primary School which has two sites: for younger children at Landford and older children at Nomansland. The latter began as a National School of 1867 on Hamptworth common, then in the 20th century the village of Nomansland expanded to surround it.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol11/pp19-77#h2-0036|title=Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 11 pp19-77 – Parishes: Downton|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|access-date=17 January 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/School/Details/860|title=Nomansland and Hamptworth C. of E. Aided Primary School|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=17 January 2016}}

Nearby Landford Bog and Landford Heath are biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

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• {{cite web|title=Landford|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/133|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=19 February 2015}}
• [https://www.landfordparishcouncil.org.uk/ Landford Parish Council]

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