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This Ordnance Survey map of 1900 from A Vision of Britain through Time locates all the original rural districts established in Wiltshire in 1894. In 1934 there were a number of mergers of neighbouring districts.
Devizes Rural District was in the central part of Wiltshire, north of Warminster Rural District and Amesbury Rural District, and south of Calne Rural District and Marlborough Rural District On the east was Pewsey Rural District and on the west were Westbury and Whorwellsdown Rural District and Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District. Devizes Rural District existed from 1894 until 1974 when it became part of the Kennet District.
List of Parishes
Parish | Description | Duration | Destination
| All Cannings | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Allington | tything, civil parish | 1894 - 1934 |
| Alton Barnes | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1934 |
| Beechingstoke | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Bishops Cannings | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Bromham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Cheverell Magna | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Chirton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Chittoe | tything, chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1934 |
| Easterton | tything, chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Erlestoke | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Etchilhampton | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Little Cheverell | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Marden | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Market Lavington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Marston | tything, civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Patney | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Potterne | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Poulshot | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Roundway | civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Rowde | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Seend | chapelry, civil parish | 1934 - 1974 |
| Stanton St. Bernard | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Stert | tything, civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Urchfont | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| West Lavington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
| Worton | tything, chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1974 |
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