Notable Residents, Past and Present
- Michael Ancram MP, 13th Marquess of Lothian.
- Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (deceased)
- David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan, 31st hereditary warden of Savernake forest.
- Lord Devlin (deceased), Judge, Baron Devlin.
- Pete Docherty, musician
- Major-General Christopher Leslie Elliot
- Elinor Goodman, former Channel 4 Political Editor.
- Brigadier Robert Hall, first Chairman of Wiltshire Council
- Nick Harper, musician.
- Sir Henry Keswick, chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings.
- Peter Lewis (announcer), HTV West news reader.
- David Newbigging, High Sheriff of Wiltshire, 2003
- Shelley Rudman, winner of the silver medal in the skeleton bob, Britain's only medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
- Peter Sarstedt, musician.
- Andy Scott, musician of The Sweet (band).
- Nigel Stock (deceased), actor.
- Zoë Wanamaker, actress.
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