In the centre of the parish is the River Bourne which flows to the south and in the 17th century the main Salisbury to Oxford road ran through North Tidworth but the route was changed in the 18th century.

In 1835 the road through North Tidworth and on to the South Tidworth had a turnpike as part of the Swindon and Marlborough to Salisbury road.

The village of North Tidworth is small and stand beside the Bourne along the old road that wound its way through the valley. Most of the cottages lay to the north of the church. South Tidworth was smaller and was built around its church on the north to south road, close to Tidworth House. The estate owner removed both the church and the village from the environs of his house in the 18th century and it seems that the village has been rebuilt at Hampshire Cross near the border with Wiltshire.

The place names have been spelt different in the two counties, and the names of both villages derive from a Saxon Tuda, and meant the enclosure or farm of Tuda. The 'u' has been a 'u' 'o' or even 'ho' between 1086 when the Domesday Survey was carried out and the 27th century. By the 18th century the spelling was Tydworth, and it is at this point that the villages differed and North Tidworth and Wiltshire used an 'i' whereas South Tedworth and Hampshire an 'e'. Then in the 20th century both parishes were spelt Tidworth but the south the older spelling was retained in Tedworth House and Tedworth Hunt.

In the Domesday Book three of the estates were in North Tidworth and four in South Tidworth and the land in North Tidworth was owned by the Bishop of Bayeux, Edward of Salisbury and Croc and there was a population of around 60 - 70. Landowners in South Tidworth included Robert, son of Gerold, and Croc an here there was a population of between 50 and 60. South Tidworth had a church that would have been there in Saxon times.

In the 12th and 13th centuries the Zouche family were in control of North Tidworth and they were one of the first families in Britain to be granted a peerage. Early 14th century there was a decimation of the already small population through the Black Death which seriously affected both of the communities and in 1377 there seems to have been no inhabitants of North Tidworth to pay the poll tax which was payable by all over 14 years of age. But the communities recovered and the farming continued and in 1527 there were 140 people in North Tidworth and in 1587 there was even an alehouse here!

Tidworth timeline

1900 An isolation hospital was built in Brimstone Bottom.
1901 An army railway was built from the Midland and South Western Junction Railway at Ludgershall to South Tidworth. The public were able to use if from 1902 and it closed in 1955.
1903 Sewerage works were built at Tidworth Park.
1904 First troops moved into new barracks from tents and huts. Military cemetery created to the north of North Tidworth.
1905 Lucknow and Mooltan Barracks built to the south west of North Tidworth church.
Early 20th century Tin Town created in Brimstone Bottom – huts for labourers, plus a hospital, mission hall, school, recreation rooms and baths.
1907 Tidworth military hospital built.
1909-1910 New road between Tidworth and Bulford built by army. Garrison
theatre built.
1913 Garrison power station built – opened 1914. It powered an electric cinema as well as supplying power to military buildings.
1915 A hutted camp built on Perham Down. Tedworth House became an Officers’ Club and remained so for 60 years.
During World War I a Royal Ordnance depot was built to the east of North Tidworth church.
1920 The first Tidworth Tattoo was held.
1920s New army buildings built to the north and south of Andover Road.
1922 Houses built in Neupal Road
1923 Houses built in Ordnance Road. Buildings for sport and recreation and a British Legion Club in existence.
Late 1920s Large estate built to south of road on Perham Down.
1929 Tank workshop built.
1933-6 Brick barracks built.
1938 Fowler Barracks and Busigny Barracks built in Brimstone Bottom.
c.1939 Mathew Barracks built in village of North Tidworth. Extensive military workshops built to the north east of North Tidworth.

The first council houses were built in 1930, eighteen in Ludgershall Road and eight on the west of Penning Road. The Ram public house was rebuilt in 1935 and McEwen-Younger Ltd the brewers had a depot here around 1939.

In the latter part of the 20th century more housing was built for the army and Mathew and Fowler Barracks were demolished in the 1960s. The Power station closed in 1961, and the power was then supplied via the National Grid and in 1963 the Railway station closed and the tracks taken up in 1964.

Doting the late 60s a council estate with bungalows for the elderly were built and a small estate was built on Perham Down in 1968. Perham Down Barracks were rebuilt as Swinton Barracks between 1972 and 1974 and in 1988 the Officers Club closed and Tedworth House became the Officer's Mess.

The school was started at the beginning of the 20th century in the middle of the garrison and was in fact run by the army, two temporary huts were added after WWI. In 1948 Hampshire County Council took over the buildings and these were run as two separate schools, an infants and a junior, Wiltshire schoolchildren left in 1962 when the new Junior and Infant's were built in North Tidworth. The school became a combined primary school in 1963 and a nursery added in 1975.

On the 1st September 1980 the school was amalgamated with the smaller Church of England school at Hampshire Cross and the new school was known as Tidworth Church of England (Controlled) Primary School and it remained at the former garrison school site in Bazaar Road,

After the boundary changes in 1992 the school cam under the jurisdiction of Wiltshire County Council and closed around 1997 and from then the children went to Clarendon or Zouche Schools