Place:Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural, Wiltshire, England

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NameMarlborough and Ramsbury Rural
TypeRural district
Located inWiltshire, England     (1934 - 1974)
See alsoMarlborough Rural, Wiltshire, Englandrural district, 1894 - 1934
Ramsbury Rural, Wiltshire, Englandrural district, 1894 - 1934
Kennet District, Wiltshire, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-2009
Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, Englandunitary authority since 2009

This Ordnance Survey map of 1944 from A Vision of Britain through Time locates the rural districts in existence in Wiltshire between 1934 and 1974.

Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District was a merger of the earlier rural districts of Marlborough Rural District and Ramsbury Rural District. The rural district was in the eastern part of Wiltshire with Hampshire and Berkshire across the county borders to the east. It surrounded the municipal borough of Marlborough. To the north was the rural district of Highworth; to the west those of Cricklade and Wootton Bassett and Calne and Chippenham; to the south those of Pewsey and Devizes. Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District existed from 1934 until 1974 when it became part of the Kennet District.

List of Parishes

ParishDescriptionDurationDestination
Aldbourne parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Avebury parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Baydon chapelry, civil parish 1934 - 1974
Berwick Bassett chapelry, civil parish 1934 - 1974
Broad Hinton parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Buttermere parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Chilton Foliat parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
East Kennett parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Froxfield parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Fyfield chapelry, civil parish 1934 - 1974
Grafton tything, chapelry, civil parish 1934 - 1974
Great Bedwyn parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Ham parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Little Bedwyn parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Mildenhall parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Ogbourne St. Andrew parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Ogbourne St. George parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Preshute civil parish 1934 - 1974
Ramsbury parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Savernake civil parish 1934 - 1974
Shalbourne parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Tidcombe and Fosbury parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
West Overton parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Winterbourne Bassett parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974
Winterbourne Monkton parish (ancient), civil parish 1934 - 1974