ROWDE, a parish in the hundred of POTTERNE-and-CANNINGS,
county of WILTS, 2 miles (W. by N.) from
Devizes, containing 961 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £6.10.,
and in the patronage of the Rev. Dr. Starkey. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary.