List of civil parishes in Wiltshire explained

This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. There are 275 civil parishes.

Swindon

Since 2017, the Borough of Swindon (formerly Swindon Municipal Borough and the surrounding Highworth Rural District) is fully parished. There are 20 parishes:^[1]

Civil Parish	Civil Parish Population 2011	Area (km2) 2011	Pre 1974 District
	693	22.98	Highworth Rural District[2]
Blunsdon	12,414	18.05	Highworth Rural District
	231	8.02	Highworth Rural District
Central Swindon North[3]
	2,667	21.58	Highworth Rural District
	3,566	0.90	Highworth Rural District
	240	10.38	Highworth Rural District
	20,960	5.09	Highworth Rural District
Highworth (town)	8,151	26.15	Highworth Rural District
	108	5.03	Highworth Rural District
	376	8.19	Highworth Rural District
Nythe, Eldene and Liden
	836	7.74	Highworth Rural District
St Andrews
South Swindon[4]	62,871[5]	16.04[6]
	226	4.33	Highworth Rural District
	22,698	9.30	Highworth Rural District
	2,069	17.38	Highworth Rural District
West Swindon
	8,033	27.57	Highworth Rural District

South Swindon parish was created with the official name of Central Swindon South, but the parish council used the name and branding "South Swindon" from its creation.^{[7] [8]} In October 2023, Swindon Borough Council consented to formally change the name to South Swindon.^[9]

Wiltshire

The whole of the county is parished.

Civil Parish	Civil Parish Population 2011	Area (km2) 2011	Pre 1974 District
	1,833	34.42	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District[10]
	2,223	9.15	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District[11]
	649	18.39	Devizes Rural District[12]
	493	10.70	Amesbury Rural District[13]
	249	10.32	Pewsey Rural District[14]
			Mere and Tisbury Rural District[15]
Amesbury (town)	10,724	24.02	Amesbury Rural District
	117	5.59	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	1,400	11.51	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District[16]
	1,321	11.14	Bradford and Melksham Rural District[17]
	615	22.47	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	548	16.44	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	664	9.72	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	157	2.93	Devizes Rural District
			Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	142	10.12	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	438	28.68	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
			Mere and Tisbury Rural District
Biddestone and Slaughterford[18]	498	9.81	Calne and Chippenham Rural District[19]
	1,784	35.98	Devizes Rural District
	684	23.61	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	122	4.05	Warminster and Westbury Rural District[20]
	379	13.18	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	3,525	18.87	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	244	21.28	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
Bradford-on-Avon (town)	9,402	8.67	Bradford on Avon Urban District[21]
	1,248	14.95	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	374	21.20	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	967	31.14	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	1,282	25.27	Malmesbury Rural District[22]
	592	8.70	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
			Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	680	28.17	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	650	12.60	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	574	8.25	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	190	10.87	Malmesbury Rural District
	1,846	19.13	Devizes Rural District
	851	6.58	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	4,201	14.72	Amesbury Rural District
	285	3.93	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	1,772	17.43	Pewsey Rural District
	156	7.07	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	2,961	24.50	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	2,796	42.86	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
Calne (town)	17,274	5.55	Calne Municipal Borough[23]
	344	6.25	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	643	4.59	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	425	19.31	Malmesbury Rural District
	175	14.10	Pewsey Rural District
	696	15.33	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	987	7.46	Devizes Rural District
			Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	525	12.98	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	363	8.91	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	208	10.29	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
Chippenham (town)	35,800	13.46	Chippenham Municipal Borough[24]
	406	7.79	Devizes Rural District
	307	22.91	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	185	6.86	Amesbury Rural District
	705	10.87	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	180	8.25	Pewsey Rural District
	381	28.42	Pewsey Rural District
	246	17.96	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	289	13.23	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	870	15.34	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	2,972	15.66	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	957	22.87	Pewsey Rural District
	511	20.18	Pewsey Rural District
	258	10.41	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	112	7.59	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	675	14.92	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
Corsham (town)	13,004	26.60	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	681	14.47	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	158	8.02	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
Cricklade (town)	4,227	15.48	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	1,057	19.82	Malmesbury Rural District
	590	13.48	Malmesbury Rural District
Devizes (town)	17,005	13.79	Devizes Municipal Borough[25]
	1,934	10.14	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	696	14.16	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	413	11.52	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	1,155	21.11	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	3,073	29.56	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	368	13.25	Amesbury Rural District
	7,379	10.92	Amesbury Rural District
			Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	681	20.29	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	524	12.31	Devizes Rural District
	253	8.97	Malmesbury Rural District
Easton (Easton Royal)			Pewsey Rural District
	222	15.22	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	734	18.73	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	625	37.68	Pewsey Rural District
	210	8.33	Devizes Rural District
	142	3.56	Devizes Rural District
	211	13.28	Pewsey Rural District
	628	22.01	Amesbury Rural District
	581	5.28	Amesbury Rural District
Fittleton cum Haxton	261	13.00	Pewsey Rural District
	140	11.05	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	102	6.22	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	669	8.91	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	382	9.27	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	195	6.22	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	686	22.63	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	1,353	16.79	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	171	2.72	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	737	6.71	Malmesbury Rural District
	368	6.81	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	534	9.95	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	539	18.18	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	210	13.72	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	280	8.89	Malmesbury Rural District
	456	6.86	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	773	39.53	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	798	6.52	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	749	21.09	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	4,967	7.66	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	560	11.70	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	1,757	7.86	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	327	13.94	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	1,223	12.48	Malmesbury Rural District
	2,130	22.21	Amesbury Rural District
	441	8.46	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	328	11.63	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	331	28.46	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	841	6.34	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	704	9.70	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
			Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	1,159	15.40	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	1,271	11.04	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	375	7.89	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	548	17.37	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	5,472	8.96	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	812	11.75	Malmesbury Rural District
	362	8.97	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	541	2.26	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	250	17.11	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
Little Cheverell[26]	144	4.14	Devizes Rural District
	357	4.88	Malmesbury Rural District
	821	22.28	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	630	15.39	Malmesbury Rural District
Ludgershall (town)	4,427	7.81	Pewsey Rural District
	1,570	6.29	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	495	16.00	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	4,952	11.97	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	331	18.62	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
Malmesbury (town)	5,380	2.83	Malmesbury Municipal Borough[27]
	405	12.50	Pewsey Rural District
	112	5.51	Devizes Rural District
	2,213	15.36	Devizes Rural District
Marlborough (town)	8,395	6.05	Marlborough Municipal Borough[28]
	207	5.33	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	177	3.67	Devizes Rural District
	7,230	29.05	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
Melksham (town)	14,677	4.55	Melksham Urban District[29]
Mere (town)			Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	477	16.87	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	130	9.15	Amesbury Rural District
	534	14.11	Pewsey Rural District
	1,414	17.46	Malmesbury Rural District
	460	7.53	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	1,060	14.29	Pewsey Rural District
	493	6.45	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	693	16.22	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	381	9.65	Amesbury Rural District
	1,754	7.15	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	430	5.59	Pewsey Rural District
	401	9.24	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	116	7.49	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	201	12.64	Malmesbury Rural District
	530	7.24	Malmesbury Rural District
	554	11.89	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	417	21.78	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	495	14.44	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	339	16.81	Amesbury Rural District
	155	3.60	Devizes Rural District
	3,634	19.09	Pewsey Rural District
	751	10.73	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	1,622	12.45	Devizes Rural District
	370	6.21	Devizes Rural District
	193	16.34	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	3,897	13.03	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	408	1.04	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	1,989	39.88	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	3,448	25.59	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	1,382	10.49	Devizes Rural District
Royal Wootton Bassett (town)[30]	11,385	20.48	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	143	8.92	Pewsey Rural District
Salisbury (city) [31]	40,302	18.49	New Sarum Municipal Borough[32]
	286	23.19	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	285	5.93	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	601	16.83	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	1,132	11.47	Devizes Rural District
	930	4.22	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	558	19.65	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
			Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	1,639	17.12	Malmesbury Rural District
	1,870	28.47	Amesbury Rural District
	103	4.13	Malmesbury Rural District
	819	11.10	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	438	11.11	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	1,953	9.12	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	2,059	27.03	Malmesbury Rural District
	189	8.25	Devizes Rural District
	851	7.31	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	264	8.56	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	1,868	1.76	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	935	10.29	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	515	20.39	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	176	4.17	Devizes Rural District
	204	13.32	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	192	13.45	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
			Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	1,045	7.76	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	232	8.16	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	734	16.02	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	174	5.45	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	248	9.93	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
			Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
Tidworth (town) [33]	10,621	21.87	Andover Rural District[34]
	358	15.68	Amesbury Rural District
Tisbury (town)	2,233	16.36	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	219	5.11	Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
	115	7.50	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
Trowbridge (town)	32,304	9.55	Trowbridge Urban District[35]
	1,190	9.00	Pewsey Rural District
	165	5.76	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	295	9.52	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	1,075	19.28	Devizes Rural District
Warminster (town)	17,490	22.90	Warminster Urban District[36]
	737	8.21	Warminster and Westbury Rural District
	252	11.89	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	146	8.15	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
	1,502	23.95	Devizes Rural District
	637	16.99	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	573	11.29	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
Westbury (town)	14,709	14.92	Westbury Urban District[37]
	1,162	3.86	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	1,504	24.19	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	558	14.60	Pewsey Rural District
	101	9.27	Amesbury Rural District
			Pewsey Rural District
Wilton (town)	3,579	10.61	Wilton Municipal Borough[38]
	321	8.18	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	1,920	7.95	Bradford and Melksham Rural District
	159	8.85	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	203	13.10	Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
	205	14.41	Amesbury Rural District
	1,238	10.90	Amesbury Rural District
	2,064	20.52	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	292	4.16	Pewsey Rural District
	443	13.20	Amesbury Rural District
	228	7.05	Pewsey Rural District
	624	3.96	Devizes Rural District
	412	16.19	Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
	825	7.12	Calne and Chippenham Rural District
	658	6.43	Mere and Tisbury Rural District
Lands common to the parishes of Broughton Gifford and Melksham Without

See also

• List of places in Swindon
• List of places in Wiltshire
• List of settlements in Wiltshire by population

Notes and References

1. Web site: Community governance review - next steps. March 2017. www.swindon.gov.uk. Swindon Borough Council. en. 12 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170222174253/http://www.swindon.gov.uk/info/20021/councillors_democracy_and_elections/687/community_governance_review_-_next_steps. 2017-02-22. dead.
2. https://archive.today/20121225005202/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10107568&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Highworth Rural District
3. Web site: The Swindon Borough (Reorganisation of Community Governance) No. 1 Order 2017. 19 January 2017. Local Government Boundary Commission for England. 4. 5 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170406110311/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/32092/Swindon-Borough-CGR-Order-2017.pdf. 2017-04-06. dead.
4. Web site: Swindon Registration District. UKBMD. 5 August 2024.
5. Web site: Central Swindon South (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location .
6. Web site: Central Swindon South (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location .
7. Web site: South Swindon Parish Council. www.southswindon-pc.gov.uk. 14 September 2018.
8. Web site: South Swindon Parish Council responds to name change block. Seaward. Tom. 1 November 2017. Swindon Advertiser. en. 14 September 2018.
9. Web site: 2023-10-16 . Parish council allowed to change its name . 2023-11-20 . Swindon Advertiser . en.
10. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10041910&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District
11. https://archive.today/20121224172949/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10025310&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Salisbury and Wilton Rural District
12. https://archive.today/20121224164947/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10025291&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Devizes Rural District
13. https://archive.today/20121224131244/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10000543&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Amesbury Rural District
14. https://archive.today/20121225173230/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10057980&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Pewsey Rural District
15. https://archive.today/20121224213748/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10001341&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Mere and Tisbury Rural District
16. https://archive.today/20121224071730/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10001330&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
17. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10001328 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Bradford and Melksham Rural District
18. Web site: Biddestone and Slaughterford. Mapit. 4 July 2023.
19. https://archive.today/20120915054710/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10193862&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Calne and Chippenham Rural District
20. https://archive.today/20121224122819/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10073996&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Warminster and Westbury Rural District
21. https://archive.today/20121224064019/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10073984&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Bradford on Avon Urban District
22. https://archive.today/20120918025457/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10135084&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Malmesbury Rural District
23. https://archive.today/20121224103017/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10220385&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Calne Municipal Borough
24. https://archive.today/20121224232212/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10135059&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Chippenham Municipal Borough
25. https://archive.today/20120918021141/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10107544&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Devizes Municipal Borough
26. Web site: Little Cheverell. Ordnance Survey. 20 July 2021.
27. https://archive.today/20121225061339/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10025278&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Malmesbury Municipal Borough
28. https://archive.today/20121224070759/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10153013&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Marlborough Municipal Borough
29. https://archive.today/20121224124541/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10196899&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Melksham Urban District
30. News: Wootton Bassett officially re-named royal town . Daily Telegraph . 16 October 2011 . Ensor, Josie . London . 16 October 2011.
31. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59250/pages/20329 The London Gazette : 24 November 2009 : Number 59250 : Warrants Under The Royal Sign Manual
32. https://archive.today/20120914135709/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10135060&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Salisbury Municipal Borough
33. http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/151840.pdf The Kennet (Parishes) Order 2003
34. https://archive.today/20120919003923/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10173334&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Andover Rural District
35. https://archive.today/20121224095424/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10098440&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Trowbridge Urban District
36. https://archive.today/20121224132922/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10135102&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Warminster Urban District
37. https://archive.today/20121224071139/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10061507&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Westbury Urban District
38. https://archive.today/20120914130654/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10025280&c_id=10001043 A Vision of Britain Through Time : Wilton Municipal Borough