DEVERHILL (LONGBRIDGE), a parish in the southern division of the hundred of DAMERHAM, though locally in the hundred of Ileytesbury, county of WILTS, 2 miles (S.) from Warminster, containing 1349 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the curacy of Monckton-Deverhill, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £ 12. The Marquis of Bath was patron in 1805. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Deverhill derives its name from the rivulet Dever, which here has a subterranean course.