Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District

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Marlborough and Ramsbury was a rural district in Wiltshire, England from 1935 to 1974.

It was formed by a County Review Order in 1935 as a merger of the Marlborough Rural District and the Ramsbury Rural District.{{cite web |title=Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10041910 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=23 February 2023}} It entirely surrounded the municipal borough of Marlborough.

In 1974, it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the new Kennet district.

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In 1945 the council bought a large Georgian house called Axholme House at 47 London Road in Marlborough and converted it to become its headquarters. The council remained based there until its abolition in 1974.{{cite news |title=Sales by auction |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=23 February 2023 |work=Wiltshire Times |date=11 August 1945 |location=Trowbridge |page=6 |quote=Sale on Tuesday, August 21st, 1945. With vacant possession on completion at 29th September next... Sale of the very attractive medium-sized freehold residential property, known as Axholme...}}Telephone Directory Volume IIB (Gloucester Area), February 1946, page 66, "Marlborough & Ramsbury R.D.C., Axholme, London Road, Marlborough"