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Devizes / d ɪ v aɪ z ɪ z / is a constituency in Wiltshire, England, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Danny Kruger, a Conservative. The constituency includes four towns and many villages in the middle and east of the county. The area's representative has been a Conservative since 1924.
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1331–1885. Number of members. Two until 1868, then one. Type...
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Devizes Castle was built by Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury in 1080, but the town is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. Because the castle was on the boundaries of the manors of Rowde, Bishops Cannings and Potterne it became known as the castrum ad divisas ("the castle at the boundaries"), hence the name Devizes. On John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611...
Devizes lies about 90 miles (140 km) west-southwest of Central London, almost 2° west of the Greenwich Meridian, with the two-degree line running through the western edge of the town, just a few hundred yards west of the castle. As this is the centre of the east–west extent of the Ordnance Survey mapping grid, True North and Grid northalign exactly...
Devizes is a civil parish with an elected town council. As of 2017, 13 councillors are Devizes Guardians, 6 Conservatives, 1 Labour and 1 Independent. The parish includes the small settlement of Dunkirk, on the northeastern slopes of the hill, which was transferred from Rowde parish in 1835. Much of the built-up area of the town, to the north, east...
Devizes has always been a market town and the market square is still used for that purpose every Thursday, and for farmers' markets on the first Saturday of each month.Indoor traders set up each day in the historic Shambles, off the market square. There are over 70 independent retailers in the town centre,[citation needed] many around the Market Pl...
There is a lively arts and culture community in the town, with the Arts Council funded Devizes International Street Festival attracting thousands to the town for two weeks leading up to August Bank Holiday each year, beginning with a long-standing "confetti battle" where, at a given signal – usually cannons firing confetti hundreds of metres into t...
The local radio station is Fantasy Radio, a community radio station that broadcast on 97 FM. The Gazette and Heraldis the town’s local weekly newspaper.
In 1857 the Great Western Railway built its Devizes branch line eastward to Devizes, from Holt Junction on its Chippenham-Weymouth line, to a station just south of the market place. In 1862 GWR extended the Reading-Hungerford line westward to meet this line, providing a direct route between Paddington and the West Country through Devizes. Pans Lane...
Devizes School, a secondary school with a sixth form, takes pupils from the town and surrounding area. It is situated in the grounds of the Southbroom House estate and the Grade II listed house forms its administrative core. The school's logo is a lion, in commemoration of the circus lions that were found on the school grounds in 1980.[citation nee...
Devizes has four Church of England parish churches, and has had nonconformist congregations since the 17th century.
Devizes is policed by Wiltshire Police, who have their headquarters on London Road in the town. Policing of Devizes was the responsibility of the City of Salisbury Police until Wiltshire Constabulary was founded in 1839 under the County Police Act 1839. It was the first county police force founded in the country, hence its motto 'Primus et Optimus ...
Devizes is a constituency in the South West region of England. The seat has been held by Danny Kruger (Conservative) since December 2019. Representation. Location. Election history. Devizes is a constituency in the South West region of England.
It was brought up in the House, 18 Apr. 1831, by Pearse, who, with his current and former colleagues, defended the electoral purity of Devizes. However, Long Wellesley argued that, as Bayntun confirmed, the petition did not represent the opinion of all the members of the corporation, still less of the inhabitants.
Quarter sessions had been held there since 1383, and until about 1631 the town held the only bridewell in Wiltshire. 6. First styled a borough by charter in 1141, Devizes enjoyed the parliamentary franchise intermittently from 1295 and almost without a break from 1459. 7 By the late fourteenth century a distinct form of government had emerged ...
