Writing in 1931, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, made the following notes about Stockton:
“Here is a gem of rural beauty unspoiled, with its thatched and timbered cottages looking as though it had tumbled out of a toy box. Few places are more suggestive of the olden time.” (My note in 1928 Warminster Guide).
The site has been settled at least from Romano-British times and was a manor in Alfred’s time. Today it looks Elizabethan, in fact the cottages were mostly built in that period and have been kept in the same state ever since. It would be an ideal setting for a film of such times.
One cottage still has a semi-round wall protruding into the street inside which the cottage bakery was once.