Heytesbury
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Heytesbury is a village in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, in the Wylye Valley. The poet, Siegfried Sassoon, spent the last part of his life in Heytesbury House, and his son George also lived there for a time.
The local church is a Collegiate Church: The Collegiate Church of St Peter and St Paul.
[edit] Local government
Heytesbury, together with Knook, Tytherington and Imber (the last of which has no residents) elects a parish council called Heytesbury, Imber and Knook. Local government services are provided by West Wiltshire District Council and Wiltshire County Council, both of whom have their offices in nearby Trowbridge. The village is represented in Parliament by the MP for Westbury, Andrew Murrison, in Wiltshire County Council by Andrew Davis and in West Wiltshire District Council by Christopher Newbury.