South Moreton Village

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The Crown public house, on High Street, was the last to be rebuilt by Wadworth of Devizes before the statutory limits on breweries owning public houses. It competes with two neighbouring up-market pubs, The Chequers in Aston Tirrold, and The Bear in North Moreton, each a mile away in opposite directions.

The Church of England parish church, after the abrupt departure of the final rector, is now administered in a team ministry extending across six local parishes: it boasts an arguably Saxon doorway, and stands by some ancient earthworks by a ford at the outskirts of the village. The Strict Baptist Chapel has a significant local history and is very central. Its conspicuously smartly dressed congregation walks about the High Street between the services every Sunday.

South Moreton School , also on High Street, is a successful small County Primary School which has been run for very many years by the same headmaster, Mr Keith Eaton, a Manxman who is also the chairman of the parish council (not to be confused with the parochial church council). Many children nowadays arrive from the neighbouring villages by car, creating regular traffic jams in the village during termtime.

The Post-office/shop was ruined by the opening of a large supermarket, only an hour's walk away. In the absence of any material public transport, neither that nor the cycle path are of much use to the village's elderly or infirm residents, who can only collect their pensions from a travelling post office in The Crown. South Moreton has perforce become a commuter village.