From The Country Churchman, Warminster And District edition, October 1968:
Heytesbury And Tytherington With Knook
Visitors To The Churches
Though people do not attend church services nowadays as they used to do, they visit the buildings by their millions – not only the cathedrals, abbeys and minsters, but every sort of church from the smallest to the largest, in remote hamlet and in the city centre, from the modern to the Saxon.
Our three churches have their share of visitors, especially Tytherington. Heytesbury merits far more visitors than it gets, and this is probably because it is on a busy main road and parking is not easy, that it does not get more.
Looking through the Visitors Book in Heytesbury Church, which is not signed by every visitor, one notices that they come from every county in England (in the present book begun in 1960 the only counties not mentioned are Cumberland and Westmoreland) and from Scotland, Wales and Ireland, from hundreds of towns and villages. And from overseas of course – the Channel Islands, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the U.S.A., Canada, Malaya, and others.
From time to time interesting personal notes are written by the visitor, for example:
1961
Mrs. Winifred M. Hill of Plymouth, grand-daughter of the late “Grannie” Hunt of this parish, who stayed with her 55 years ago (1906).
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Huggett, of Dunedin, N.Z. neice of Mrs. B. Bartlett.
1962
(Lt..-Col) Roger J.B. Anderson, of Bushey, late of Heytesbury. (Colonel Anderson is the son of a previous Vicar of Heytesbury).
1963
R.C. Hains, choirboy here 40 years ago, 1923, now of Glamorgan.
1964
Thelma Tyrrrell Graeme. Roseville, Sydney, Australia. “A member of the Hungerford family. Captain Emmanuel Hungerford migrated to New South Wales, Australia, with his wife and family in 1821, and Bishop William Tyrrell was consecrated a bishop in Westminster Abbey in 1847, and was appointed to Newcastle, N.S.W. becoming the first bishop and building the beautiful cathedral.”
1965
Rev. and Mrs. E.W.L. Brainwood, Sydney, N.S.W. “Last time visited this church in 1918 as young Australian soldier.
1968
John and Annabel Foulston, of 74 Eton Rise, London, N.W.5. grandson of William Foulston, wheelwright of Heytesbury.
Some refer to the beauty of the church and one wrote “Thank you for your wise bookstall”.