Parish Information
In the Domesday Book Roundway is included in the estate of Bishops Cannings. It's place in history however was confirmed in 1643 when the Royalists and Parliamentarian forces met on Roundway Down. The battle was won by the Royalist forces and directly led to the capture of the port of Bristol shortly afterwards.
The modern Parish of Roundway was created in 1894 containing the villages of Roundway and Nursteed Village, the Le Marchant Barracks and Roundway Hospital.
The parish wraps around the North, East and South of Devizes split in the middle by the parallel Kennet & Avon Canal and London Road. The hospital and barracks have both in recent times been converted into housing and along with new build housing estates has caused the parish to grow rapidly over the last twenty years with a current population of approximately 3500.
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