Devizes (/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/) is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received...
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South; Bromham, Rowde & Roundway; Calne South; Devizes East; Devizes North; Devizes Rural West; Devizes South; Holt; Melksham East; Melksham Forest; Melksham...
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Devizes Castle was a medieval fortification in the town of Devizes, Wiltshire, England, on a site now occupied by a Victorian-era castle. It is a Grade...
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Down, a Royalist victory, was fought near Devizes. In 1794, it was decided at a meeting at the Bear Inn in Devizes to raise a body of ten independent troops...
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Carless (1911). "Richard of Devizes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). p. 298. Works by or about Richard of Devizes at Wikisource "Chronicle...
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Devizes railway station was the railway station serving Devizes in Wiltshire, England between 1857 and 1966. The station was on the Devizes branch line...
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Battle of Roundway Down (section Siege of Devizes)
assembled 1,500 cavalry, then set out for Devizes with Maurice and his men. Roundway Down Bath Salisbury Chippenham Devizes Marshfield On 11 July, Waller brought...
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Devizes White Horse, officially known as the Devizes Millennium White Horse, is a chalk hill figure of a horse located on Bank Field, an escarpment at...
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the following areas: The majority of the former Devizes constituency but excluding the town of Devizes and the area surrounding it, which is included in...
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the nearby town of Devizes in 1835 and to the new parish of Roundway in 1894. Bishops Cannings parish had previously encircled Devizes to the north, east...
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