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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Mary), a borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Calne, Chippenham and Calne, … cattle and sheep. The corporation formerly consisted of two guild stewards, and an indefinite number of free … of the hundred of Berkeley, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 1 mile (N.) from Dursley; containing 1851 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… imbued with the administrative and judicial functions of a hundred. The hundred was assessed at 91 hides in 1084. 2 … or are likely to have been, part of Calne hundred in 1084. Two of the estates in the hundred, called or at Beversbrook, … parishes, and Beversbrook (in Hilmarton parish). 17 Two additions were made to the hundred later. Calne had 74 or …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… north and north-east and immediately southwest and west of the town was granted to Calne church before 1086. It was … 18th century or early 19th. 87 In 1999 the farmhouses of two survived: each is of the late 17th century or early 18th and has been converted to two cottages (nos. 17 and 19, and nos. 55 and 57, the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and was endowed with what was almost certainly part of it. Calne church was standing in 1066, and in 1086 it was … Calne vicarage was united with the curacy of Cherhill. The two were disunited in 1842, when Cherhill became an … 1707, the date of three bells cast by Abraham Rudhall at Gloucester which hung in the church, and in 1783 and 1786, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… HISTORY Within Calne parish there were several sets of open fields, and there was extensive meadow land and … 37 may formerly have been larger. East of the town lay two commonable meadows. Abberd mead, 263 a. in 1728 and … 19th century to the late 20th. 96 John and Henry Harris, brothers whose father John Harris (d. 1791) opened a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for English to be taught; he did not specify the location of the school. A newly built house on the Green at Calne was … soon after 1687, and Sir Francis Bridgeman (d. 1717) gave two exhibitions at the Queen's College, Oxford, for pupils at … said to have been founded by Sir John Ernle, either of two owners of Whetham manor in the 17th century, as one for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (West) and Bowood 1843 Calne is a small town 8 km. east of Chippenham and 10 km. north of Devizes. 70 It was an early … it, traffic between Calne and Bath probably used one of two roads between the town and the north end of Sandy Lane. … partly between Whetham House and its park, to link those two sections of road. 40 The new turnpike road gave access …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… held by burghal tenure in 1086 11 and later, and burgesses of Calne elected members of parliament from 1295, 12 but the … again. 16 In the 16th century and until 1685 there were two stewards and usually no more than c. 20 burgesses. The … and from 1689 to 1835 Calne was an incorporated borough of two stewards and a varying number of burgesses. 19 There were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… there. 98 King Eadred (d. 955) devised Calne to the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Winchester (the Old minster). 99 … and was held with Calstone manor by Fulk from 1201-2. The two manors descended together mainly in the Cauntelo, Zouche, … Cowage estate was built in the mid 17th century. It has a two-storeyed and three-bayed east- west main range with …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. Calne borough chose two members of the parliament which met in 1295 and of two later parliaments which met in Edward I's reign; it chose …