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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 … of the boundary. On the south it apparently followed the east-west line of either the Roman road between London and … the main London-Bath road until the 18th century, 5 on the east it may have followed the roughly north-south line …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Caline outside the town Agricultural land north and north-east and immediately southwest and west of the town was granted to Calne church before 1086. It was … planted or reorganized in the Saxon period. 81 It stood east of the town and by the 14th century had been given 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 … payment may have been to replace tithes from land on the east bank of the Whetham stream drowned in 1766 by the lake … was paid to the vicar in place of tithes on 45 a. on the east edge of Bowood park. The £2 a year was converted to a …
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 … 31 Agriculture. Agricultural land north and north-east and immediately south-west and west of the town was laid … earlier 18th century, 37 may formerly have been larger. East of the town lay two commonable meadows. Abberd mead, 263 …
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 … 1909 in the former silk mill and orphanage on the north-east side of the Green. In 1908-9 new buildings for the … Dunstan in the north part of the town and Priestley in the east part. In 1999 St. Dunstan school had on its roll 267 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Calne (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 … suggests that the king's estate called Calne extended east to include Berwick Bassett, Cherhill, Compton Bassett, …
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 … which stood behind buildings at the south end and on the east side of High Street in the 18th century 40 and was … nearly all the town. The principal exceptions were, on the east edge of the town, Eastman Street, the site of the …
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 … granted to it by the king. It lay north and north-east and immediately south-west and west of Calne, and it was … was Baldwin de Reviers, earl of Devon and lord of the Isle of Wight. 99 The overlordship descended with the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… In the 1660s Nathaniel Webb, formerly rector of Yatesbury, and Thomas Rutty, formerly rector of Milston, … a vestry was added in 1832, a schoolroom was added on the east side c. 1858, and the main north front of the chapel was … Strict Baptist services were held in the chapel in 1996. East of Quemerford the Zoar chapel was built in 1832 beside …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilts. & Berks. canal was extended to the Town mill at the east end of Cox's Hill from a basin 200 m. south of the mill. The … house, and in 1801 a new road was built along the east bank of the canalized river to link Patford Lane to Port …