From “The Changing Village, A Study Of Villages In Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorset,” conducted by Miss Hilary Tinley for the Arthur Rank Centre, National Agricultural Centre, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2LZ, during 1980:
Codford In West Wiltshire District, Wiltshire
There are water meadows along the banks of the Wylye and open arable land up into the chalk farmland of the Plain. The farms are large and mixed with well maintained farm roads and fences. There are patches of woodland and shrub maintained for nature conservation and game management.