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the village on the A4 between Marlborough and Avebury

Fyfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, in the Kennet Valley about 2.5 mile (4 km) west of Marlborough. The village is on the A4 road which was historically the main route from London to the west of England.

Fyfield Down has extensive remains from successive phases of prehistoric to post medieval activity. A 300 acre field system extending onto Overton Down has produced Iron Age and Romano British finds. The downland has many sarsen stones – pieces of dense, hard, sandy rock. In prehistoric times these were used for monuments, handaxes, quern stones and other implements; medieval houses in Kennet Valley villages had walls made from sarsen blocks. Around 1850, Edward Free began a stone cutting business at Fyfield which supplied much material for buildings, pavements and kerbs. The Free family moved to Marlborough in 1890; sarsen cutting declined after 1915 and ceased in 1939. Prior to the mid 19th century, the village was centred south of the church, in the valley northeast of Lockeridge House (c. 1740). After a fire, this area was abandoned in favour of higher ground along the Bath Road; many of the new cottages were demolished during road improvements in the 1930s, leaving the village without a heart. From c. 1880, about 560 acres

Fyfield elects a joint parish council with the adjacent parish of West Overton, named Kennet Valley Parish Council (the name Fyfield and West Overton was used until 2022). The parish falls within the area of the Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for most local government functions. Before the 19th century, Fyfield was a chapelry of Overton parish, alongside the tithings of East Overton, Lockeridge, Shaw, and West Overton. The tithings became a poor law parish called West Overton, while Fyfield relieved its own poor; this probably led the Census enumerators of 1841 to class Fyfield, with its medieval chapel, incorrectly as an ancient parish, which in turn led to its establishment as a civil parish. Clatford Park and Overton Heath, to the south of the ancient Wansdyke and in the far south of the modern parish, were extra parochial areas in the earlier 19th century. In 1896 they were merged into Fyfield parish. The building has 13th century origins and a 15th century tower; it was restored in 1849. Today the church is part of the Upper Kennet benefice.