Talbot's famous 1835 print of the Oriel window in Lacock Abbey is the oldest known negative in existence.

Latticed window in Lacock Abbey in 1835 by Talbot is a print from the oldest photographic negative in existence

He died in Lacock village aged 77, and is buried there along with his wife and children.

Lacock is mentioned in the Domesday book, with a population of 160 – 190 ; with two mills and a vineyard.

A scarecrow festival is held annually in Lacock.

The wide vale is now known as the Avon Vale, and the river flows on via Lacock to Melksham, then turns north-west through Bradford on Avon, where the centre of the town grew up around the ford across the river Avon, hence the origin of the town's name (" Broad-Ford ").

BBC Wiltshire broadcasts from its studios in Swindon on 103. 5 ( Newton Barrow, near A360, 5 miles north-west of Salisbury ), 104. 3 ( Naish Hill, near A342 4 miles west of Calne which is for west Wiltshire ), 104. 9 ( Marlborough for east Wiltshire ) FM ; 1332 ( Lacock, near A350, 4 miles south of Chippenham ) and 1368 ( Old Town, Swindon, near B4006 ) AM ; DAB and via the BBC iPlayer.

The town has a thriving business district and is also close to the retail centres of Bath, Bristol, Chippenham, Trowbridge and Swindon and is surrounded by beautiful villages such as Lacock, Holt, Seend and Semington.

He produced some classical buildings like the Shire Hall in Warwick and Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, but is more often associated with Gothic revival work, as at Albury Hall, Oxfordshire and the Great Hall at Lacock Abbey.

Fox Talbot family grave in Lacock | Lacock village churchyard

Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order.

The abbey was founded in Snail's Meadow, near the village of Lacock.

Lacock Abbey and the surrounding village were given to the National Trust in 1944.

The Trust market the abbey and village together as Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village.

Lacock Abbey was founded on the manorial lands by Ela, Countess of Salisbury and established in 1232 ; and the village — with the manor — formed its endowment to " God and St Mary ".

The first location that the producers agreed on was Lacock in Wiltshire to represent the village of Meryton.

* Lacock – historic village and abbey, largely owned by the National Trust, east of Gastard

Starting at junction 17 of the M4 motorway north of Chippenham it goes past the small village of Lacock and then through the towns of Melksham, Westbury, Warminster, Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum, ending in Poole beside Poole Harbour, an English Channel port There have been many bypasses built along the A350, including at Shaftesbury in the 1950s, Chippenham, Warminster, Blandford Forum and most recently south of Melksham at Semington.

Geoffrey found out that Moses was born in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire.

Talbot was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, and of Lady Elisabeth Fox Strangways, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester.

The Corsham road estate on Corsham road in Lacock was built by North Wiltshire Council in 1962 as affordable housing was needed in the parish.

* Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire

In January 1689 he was appointed vicar of Lacock in Wiltshire, which he held until his resignation in 1693.

Montagu was born at the family home of Lackham House in Wiltshire, some three miles south of Chippenham in the northwest of that county, and baptised at Lacock Church on 9 July 1753.

* August-H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England.

* Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire ( Hogwarts interiors )

At the time of the Domesday Survey the industrial pursuits of Wiltshire were almost exclusively agricultural ; 390 mills are mentioned, and vineyards at Tollard Royal and Lacock.

Collapsing after a sermon at Lacock, Wiltshire, he was taken to the episcopal manor house of Monkton Farleigh where he died on 23 September 1571.

Talbot also took a keen interest in the project, encouraging his architects to borrow elements from Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire ( ancestral home of the Talbots and home to his cousin William Henry Fox Talbot ) and Melbury House in Dorset ( home of his mother's family, the Fox-Strangeways, Earls of Ilchester ).

Talbot also took a keen interest in the project, encouraging his architects to borrow elements from Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire ( ancestral home of the Talbots and home to his cousin William Henry Fox Talbot ) and Melbury House in Dorset ( home of his mother's family, the Fox-Strangways, Earls of Ilchester ).

* Lacock, Wiltshire — ( Highbury Village )

The wedding took place on 6 May 2006 in the Church of Saint Cyriac, an Anglican church in Lacock, Wiltshire.

A latticed window in Lacock Abbey, England, photographed by William Fox Talbot in 1835.

* August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in England.

* Lacock Village ( 1980, 5 min )

They purchased about of land for $ 2, 000. 00 from General Abner Lacock.

Lacock Abbey from the south

Lacock Abbey from the southeast

* Behind the scenes gallery – images of Great Chalfield Manor and Lacock Abbey from the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl ( film ), National Trust

* Behind the scenes gallery – images of Great Chalfield Manor and Lacock Abbey from the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl, National Trust

Lacock Abbey, dedicated to St Mary and St Bernard, was founded in 1229 by the widowed Lady Ela the Countess of Salisbury, who laid the abbey's first stone 16 April 1232, in the reign of King Henry III, and to which she retired in 1238.

Generally, Lacock Abbey prospered throughout the Middle Ages.

At Lacock, as elsewhere, they were named for individuals " whose recognition in this way advertised the family's affinities ": the best chamber was " the duke's chamber ", probably signifying John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, whom Sharington had served, while " Lady Thynne's chamber ", identified it with the wife of Sir John Thynne of Longleat, and " Mr Mildmay's chamber " was reserved for Sharington's son-in-law Anthony Mildmay of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.

Some interior sequences in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were filmed at Lacock, including the cloister walk ( illustrated, left ) where Harry freed Dobby.

During four days in October 2007 Lacock was also used to film some scenes for the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Lacock appears in the " Robin Hood and the Sorcerer ", " Cromm Cruac " and " The Pretender " episodes of Robin of Sherwood.

* Lacock abbey charters, ed.

Lacock was granted a market and developed a thriving wool industry during the Middle Ages.

In 1916 Charles Henry Fox Talbot bequeathed the Lacock estate to his niece, Matilda Gilchrist-Clark, who took the name of Talbot.

The Church of St Cyriac, Lacock was established in the late 11th century.