# Gomeldon

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**Gomeldon** is a small village in the valley of the [River Bourne](/source/River_Bourne,_Wiltshire) in [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire),[1] England, in the [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) of [Idmiston](/source/Idmiston). It lies about 5 miles (8 km) north-east of [Salisbury](/source/Salisbury), between [Winterbourne Gunner](/source/Winterbourne_Gunner) and [Porton](/source/Porton), and as of 2012 its population was estimated at 200.

There is a primary school[2] and, although there is no station, the main railway line to London passes through the village.[3]

Gomeldon was a village in medieval times.[4][5] Ten buildings on the ancient village site south-west of the school, between the modern village and the river, were excavated in the 1960s, and a report published by [Salisbury Museum](/source/The_Salisbury_Museum).[6][7] The site of the [deserted village](/source/Deserted_medieval_village) is designated as a scheduled monument.[8]

In 1821 the population was 20, and in 1831 there were 48 inhabitants. In 1868 it was a small hamlet in the parish of Idmiston.[9]

## References

1. ["Villages celebrate in style"](http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/villages/jubilee_celebrations.shtml). *BBC - Wiltshire*. 17 May 2002. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

1. ["Gomeldon Primary School, Idmiston"](https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/School/Details/1030). *Wiltshire Community History*. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

1. ["Idmiston"](https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/124). *Wiltshire Community History*. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 12 November 2015.

1. John Hare (2011). [*A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KC4wN9W-jV4C&pg=PA30). Univ of Hertfordshire Press. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-902806-85-3.

1. Christopher Dyer (2001). [*Everyday Life in Medieval England*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1s09shL69CgC&pg=PA155). A&C Black. pp. 155–. ISBN 978-0-8264-1982-8.

1. John Musty & David J. Algar (1966). [*The Excavations at the Deserted Medieval Village Site of Gomeldon, Near Salisbury, Wiltshire*](https://books.google.com/books?id=agzUYgEACAAJ). Salisbury Museum.

1. ["Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire, 1966"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137998#page/143/mode/1up). *Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine*. **62**: 129–130. 1967. – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

1. [GENUKI: Idmiston](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Idmiston/)

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