| Calne | 1882 AD | Water supplied to the town from a reservoir built at Calstone; the Market House on Market Hill is demolished | 
                        
                            | Chippenham | 1882 AD | The great flood puts out the fires at the gas works and flood houses in Foghamshire | 
                        
                            | Corsham | 1882 AD | Market Hall partly rebuilt and becomes the Town Hall | 
                        
                            | Cricklade | 1882 AD | The National School becomes a boy's only school and the girls are transferred to St. Mary's National School | 
                        
                            | Great Somerford | 1882 AD | Reading room becomes a chapel : Volunteer Inn opened : small parts of the parish transferred to Little Somerford and Malmesbury | 
                        
                            | Purton | 1882 AD | Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Play Close demolished and new chapel built on the site | 
                        
                            | Westbury | 1882 AD | First recorded mention of the Horse and Groom inn |