Place:Devizes Rural, Wiltshire, England

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NameDevizes Rural
TypeRural district
Located inWiltshire, England     (1894 - 1974)
See alsoKennet District, Wiltshire, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-2009
Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, Englandunitary authority since 2009

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

ParishDescriptionDurationDestination
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