Rowde, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Rowde, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on an affluent of the river Avon, 2½ miles WNW of Devizes station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Devizes. Acreage, 2669; population of the civil parish, 1195; of the ecclesiastical, 877. For parish council purposes Rowde is divided into Rowde Within, which is included in the borough of Devizes, and Rowde Without or Rowde Proper, which has a parish council consisting of eleven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £270 with residence. The church was partly rebuilt in 1833, has been restored, and contains some good stained windows. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Reading and coffee rooms were erected in 1887.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Rowde St. Matthew | |
Hundred | Potterne and Cannings | |
Poor Law union | Devizes |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Rowde:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1605-1904 | 1754-1921 | 1606-1924 | 1605-1908 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rowde from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rowde (St. Matthew))
Maps
Online maps of Rowde are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online: