Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Wiltshire. It has nearly 500 listed buildings, some notable churches, a town hall and a green in the centre of the town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 18,100 residents
- Description: town in Wiltshire, England
- Also known as: “Devizes (Wiltshire)” and “Devizes, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Devizes Town Hall and Wiltshire Museum.
Devizes Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Vieve Forward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Devizes Town Hall is a municipal building in St John's Street in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Devizes Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
Wiltshire Museum
Museum
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Wiltshire Museum, formerly known as Wiltshire Heritage Museum and Devizes Museum, is a museum, archive and library and art gallery established in 1874 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England.
Kennet and Avon Canal Museum
Museum
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
The Kennet and Avon Canal Museum is a museum in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, covering the history of the Kennet and Avon Canal. The museum is housed in a former bonded warehouse at Devizes Wharf, approximately 1 mile from the Caen Hill Flight.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poulshot and Roundway.
Poulshot
Village
Photo: Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Poulshot is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Devizes, about 2.5 miles to the northeast. The parish includes the hamlet of Townsend. Poulshot is situated 2½ miles southwest of Devizes.
Roundway
Hamlet
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roundway is a hamlet, ward and former civil parish adjacent to Devizes in the English county of Wiltshire. The hamlet lies about 1+1⁄4 miles northeast of Devizes town centre.
Bishops Cannings
Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishops Cannings is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, England, 3 miles north-east of Devizes. The parish includes the village of Coate and the hamlets of Bourton, Horton and Little Horton. Bishops Cannings is situated 2½ miles northeast of Devizes.
Devizes
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3525° or 51° 21′ 9″ northLongitude
-1.9958° or 1° 59′ 45″ westPopulation
18,100Elevation
427 feet (130 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DVZOpen location code
9C3W9233+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 26015407OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Devizes” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Devizes”
- Basque: “Devizes”
- Bengali: “ডেবিজেজ”
- Cebuano: “Devizes”
- Chinese: “Devizes”
- Chinese: “特伍維茨”
- Chinese: “特伍维茨”
- Chinese: “迪韋齊斯”
- Dutch: “Devizes”
- Esperanto: “Devizes”
- French: “Devizes”
- German: “Devizes”
- Gujarati: “ડેવિઝસ”
- Hungarian: “Devizes”
- Indonesian: “Devizes”
- Irish: “Devizes”
- Italian: “Devizes”
- Japanese: “ディヴァイジズ”
- Japanese: “デヴァイジズ”
- Kannada: “ಡಿವೈಜಸ್”
- Korean: “데비즈”
- Ladin: “Devizes”
- Latin: “Castrum de Vies”
- Latin: “Devizes”
- Latin: “Divisae”
- Lithuanian: “Devisesas”
- Macedonian: “Дивајзис”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Devizes”
- Moksha: “Дивайзис”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Devizes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Devizes”
- Norwegian: “Devizes”
- Persian: “دوایزز”
- Polish: “Devizes”
- Portuguese: “Devizes”
- Romanian: “Devizes”
- Russian: “Дивайзес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Devizes”
- Slovenian: “Devizes”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوایزز”
- Spanish: “Devizes”
- Swedish: “Devizes”
- Tamil: “டேவிஸிஸ்”
- Telugu: “డేవిజెస్”
- Turkish: “Devizes”
- Ukrainian: “Дівайзіс (Вілшир)”
- Ukrainian: “Дівайзіс”
- Urdu: “دیویزیس”
- Volapük: “Devizes”
- Welsh: “Devizes”
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