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    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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    Devizes School is a mixed comprehensive school in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, for children and young people aged 11 to 18. The school is near the centre...
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  • Southbroom Infants' School, Devizes Southbroom St James Academy, Devizes Southwick CE Primary School, Southwick Stanton St Quintin Primary School, Stanton St...
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    with Devizes School. The school opened in 1962 as a secondary modern and became a comprehensive in 1973. There used to be a link between the school and...
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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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    Southbroom House (category Devizes)
    today the house forms part of Devizes School, the town's secondary school. The Southbroom area, south-east of Devizes town centre, was part of Bishops...
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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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    125 miles (201 km) from Devizes in Wiltshire to Westminster in central London. It has been run since 1948. Starting at Devizes wharf, the route follows...
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    David Cameron, and became the MP for the safe Conservative constituency of Devizes in December 2019. Similarly to Prue, who said: "I ended up voting for Brexit...
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  • The Devizes County House of Corrections or Devizes Prison was a correctional facility in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. It opened in 1817, replacing the...
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    has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Wiltshire, previously Devizes, since 2019. He has been Shadow Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
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  • Wick is a suburb of Devizes in the English county of Wiltshire. Until around 1800, when expansion of Devizes turned it into a suburb, Wick was a village...
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    Roundway (redirect from Roundway, Devizes)
    civil parish adjacent to Devizes in the English county of Wiltshire. The hamlet lies about 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) northeast of Devizes town centre. In April...
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    in Wiltshire, England, in the Vale of Pewsey 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Devizes. The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a settlement of 28 households, held...
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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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    The Old Town Hall is a historic building in Wine Street in Devizes, a town in Wiltshire, in England. The structure, which was completed in 1752 and has...
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    Upavon. Retrieved 29 September 2022. Cowen, Lewis (11 October 2012). "Devizes school unveils white horse to mark 10th birthday". Gazette & Herald. Retrieved...
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    village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Devizes. In some sources the Latinized name of Cheverell Magna is used, especially...
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  • of Samuel Stephens Marling to Margaret Williams Cartwright of Devizes. Marling School has a programme of rebuilding and refurbishment to improve the...
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    in Wiltshire, England. The village is 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) northwest of Devizes and the same distance east of Melksham. Besides the main village of Bromham...
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    1980, two Chipperfield's lions found their way onto the grounds of Devizes School in Wiltshire. Chipperfield Circus, as run by the Dick Chipperfield family...
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  • Ian Bishop (bishop) (category People from Devizes)
    was born on 13 November 1962 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Devizes School, a comprehensive school in the town. He studied urban and...
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    village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Devizes. The parish includes the hamlets of Easterton Sands and Eastcott. Easterton...
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    Michael Ancram (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh School of Law)
    Office in Margaret Thatcher's government. After being elected to represent Devizes at the 1992 general election, Ancram served at the Northern Ireland Office...
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    could decide election in true-blue Melksham & Devizes". The Times. Retrieved 5 July 2024. "Melksham and Devizes – General election results 2024". BBC News...
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    18th-century MP; Joshua Smith (1732–1819), MP for Devizes; and George Watson-Taylor (1771–1841), also MP for Devizes. The Watson-Taylors built up large estates...
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  • Clive Robertson (actor) (category People from Devizes)
    science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie. Born in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, Robertson spent much of his younger life abroad, living...
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    of Salisbury Plain, on the A360 road between Devizes and Salisbury, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Devizes. The parish includes the hamlet of Littleton...
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    about 7+1⁄2 miles (12 km) east of Westbury and 5 miles (8 km) south of Devizes. Like its neighbour to the west, Great Cheverell, the parish is narrow...
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  • Henley and Thame Honiton and Sidmouth Horsham Lewes Maidenhead Melksham and Devizes Mid Dorset and North Poole Mid Sussex Newbury Newton Abbot Norfolk North...
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