Timeline events for date 1640
| Comunity | Date | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Calne | 1640 AD | Manor House at Calstone Wellington, owned by the Royalist Ducket family, is burned down |
| Downton | 1640 AD | Moot House was built. |
| Minety | 1640 AD | Cannon shot marks from the Civil War can be seen in the walls of the church |
| Sherston | 1640 AD | Sherston Magna and Sherston Parva abolished and combined to create Sherston |
| Wootton Bassett | 1640 AD | Edward Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon and chancellor to Charles II, is MP for Wootton Bassett |