Writing in 1928, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, gave the following description of Tytherington:
Distance from Warminster – 4 miles.
Part of the parish of Heytesbury (village of Heytesbury 1 mile away).
Here is a compact little village suggesting it once possessed all that we look for in a typical, self-contained, old world village; today looking pathetic with an ancient church which seems to mock God rather than praise Him, and a mere handful of thatched cottages.
A village green survives in the centre and there too, the customary town tree, hollowed with age, its days numbered. Had it been any other tree it would have been cut down for firewood, but there seems to be an unconscious veneration which has preserved so far. Here one must have stood since time immemorial, at first of religious significance, then the moot tree, the gospel tree, and lastly, the pley stow or playground-tree for May Day and other jollifications.
In a little dip a chalk stream oozes through to feed a watercress bed, and from beside it a track runs up over the hill for two miles when it strikes the old Roman road from Sarum to the Severn, so that the village has, in times past, not been far from an artery to the outside world.
Place-Name – Keltic. Ty = house (Tythe = tenth).
Thethington, on old, undated Hundred map, Salisbury Museum.