Compton Bassett is a village in Wiltshire between Calne and Cherhill with a population of approximately 250. It is a largely rural village with several farms, a church, a pub and a shop. Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Calne is a town in Wiltshire, England. ... Cherhill is a village in Wiltshire, England located on the A4 road between Calne and Marlborough about 90 miles west of London. ...

In 1998 Compton Bassett church gained notoriety when a local resident (in fact neighbour of the church), 65 year old Midge Mather, broke into the church and cut through the bell ropes because she could not stand the noise of the bells. It took her upwards of two hours after breaking down the doors to cut the ropes and when she got home she rang the Police and told them what she had done. She was given a Conditional Discharge for her actions.

RAF Compton Bassett was first opened as an air base in the World War I and like RAF Yatesbury continued in the interwar years before again taking on a major role in the second world war and then closing in the 1960s. The housing around the airbase continued to be used after the main base had shut by RAF staff working at RAF Lyneham and other West country RAF bases, in the 1980s the housing was used for American service personnel stationed at US airbases such as RAF Fairford. The housing has now been sold to private buyers. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... Yatesbury - village adjacent to Cherhill on the A4 road between Calne and Marlborough in Wiltshire, England RAF Yatesbury is a former RAF airfield well known to many airmen who served in the second world war. ... RAF Lyneham is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. ... RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, near to Fairford. ...

RAF Compton Bassett is now known as Lower Compton, after the petitioning of the residents for a separate name, due to the fact it actually lies two miles from the village of Compton Bassett.

External links

• Map sources for Compton Bassett

• ComptonBassett.com village website