Lacock is a village in the county of Wiltshire in England about 5 km south of the town of Chippenham. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust  and attracts many visitors by virtue of its unspoiled appearance.

There's lots to discover in Lacock village: quaint traditional stone cottages, the old workhouse, the medieval tithe barn, the old lock-up and the village church.

The meandering River Avon forms the boundary to the north side of the churchyard, while humorous stone figures look down from St Cyriac Church. Inside the 15th century church is the splendid Renaissance -style tomb of Sir William Sharington. He acquired Lacock Abbey after the Dissolution, but it was a later owner, John Ivory Talbot, who had the buildings remodeled in the Gothic Revival Style.

The Abbey is famous for the window ( in the south gallery ) from which his descendant  William Henry Fox Talbot, an early pionner of photography took his first picture in 1835.A 16th-century barn has been converted to the Fox Talbot Museum, which has displays on his experiments.

Designed by Robert Adam in 1769, Bowood House includes the laboratory where Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774, and a fine collection of sculpture, costumes, jewelry and paintings.