Bishops Cannings is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Devizes.

Bishops Cannings village is about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the A361 road which links Devizes with Avebury and Swindon.

[6] The manor of Cannings was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as held by the Bishop of Salisbury; there was a substantial population of 127 households, with six mills.

The place-name is a common one in England and derives from Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.

In the 1660s the lease of the manor of Cannings was bought by Paul Methuen (d. 1667) of Bradford-on-Avon,[8] reputedly the richest cloth merchant in England.

[10] John's son Paul (c.1672–1757) deputised for his father at Lisbon, sat for Devizes and Brackley (Northamptonshire), became a government minister and held offices in the royal household;[11] he sold the estate in 1720.

On the 27 May 1941, a Royal Air Force De Havilland Dragon Rapide (R5929) was operating a training flight out of RAF Yatesbury.

[20] A north-eastern part of the Devizes built-up area known as Northfields, between the canal and Horton Road and including retailers Lidl and B&Q and the former Le Marchant Barracks, remains within Bishops Cannings parish.

The large central tower carries a spire, and the four-bay nave (which originally had a higher roof) has aisles and a south porch.

[26] Furnishings include a carrel desk (English Heritage)[22] which Pevsner describes as a penitential seat and a "great oddity"; it is partly 15th-century.

George Ferebee, vicar, arranged for an early organ to be installed around 1593, and in 1602 provided a peal of eight bells from the foundry of John Wallis.

The rectory manor, known as Cannings Canonicorum, remained in the ownership of the cathedral's dean and chapter (but generally leased out) until they sold it at the beginning of the 19th century.

[30] The hamlet of Chittoe, some 5 miles (8 km) to the north-west near Bromham, was a detached part of Bishops Cannings parish until a church was built there in 1845.

Part of North Wilts Golf Club, on the downs, is within the parish,[39] near the Morgan's Hill Site of Special Scientific Interest.