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ROWDE, a '''parish''', with a village, in Devizes district, Wiltshire; on an affluent of the river Avon, 2½ miles W N W of Devizes railway station. There is a '''Wesleyan chapel'''.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=12081&amp;st=Rowde Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)]</ref> | ROWDE (St. Matthew), a '''parish''', in the union of Devizes, hundred of Potterne and Cannings, Devizes and N. divisions of Wilts, 2 miles (W. by N.) from Devizes. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51246#s19 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''](1848), pp. 703-705. Date accessed: 09 October 2013.</ref> | ||
<br> ROWDE, a '''parish''', with a village, in Devizes district, Wiltshire; on an affluent of the river Avon, 2½ miles W N W of Devizes railway station. There is a '''Wesleyan chapel'''.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=12081&amp;amp;amp;amp;st=Rowde Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)]</ref> | |||
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