From The Official Guide, Salisbury & Wilton Rural District, Wiltshire, c.1950:
Steeple Langford
Covering an area of 5,038 acres, this parish is situated on the River Wylye, and on the road which runs from Warminster to Salisbury. Steeple Langford is nine miles away from Salisbury and two miles from Wylye Station, and the area is characterised by the small lake formed by the gravel excavations in the valley.
The parish church is dedicated to All Saints, a stone structure in the Early English style, surmounted by a tower with spire, containing a clock and five bells. The Registers date from 1674.
This is one of the many areas in this part of England which is intimately associated with the great writer and reformer William Cobbett, who described the village in his incisive prose as he saw it ten years after the Battle of Waterloo, at which period the unemployed cloth-makers of Bradford had arrived in the area, having walked from Bradford to the south country, and were living on nuts and other fruits of the hedgerows. Two other names connected with Steeple Langford are those of the sixteenth century grammarian, Thomas Merriott, and Joseph Collier, the preacher.
Two miles north of the village, and on the Downs, is Yarnborough Castle, the name given to an ancient British camp of large dimensions and perfection of form.
The parish is served by a Post and Telegraph Office.