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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 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… In the 1660s Nathaniel Webb, formerly rector of Yatesbury, and Thomas Rutty, formerly rector of Milston, … from 1846 again in the chapel. 35 On Census Sunday in 1851 two services were held: 72 people attended in the afternoon, … who met in a room in Wood Street from 1849 and held two services on Census Sunday in 1851, when they refused to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 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 … It is in Franco-Flemish late Gothic style and consists of two parts linked by a gatearch. The east part, a buttressed … of the old Butcher Row. 68 On the west side of the Green two schools were built, and Bentley's school was rebuilt, in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the 20th century. Between c. 1900 and c. 1920 the centre of Calne seems to have changed little. The only notable new … called Church Street, had been demolished, and in 1932 two bridges, one for traffic and one for pipes, were built … and in the 1960s that land was used for c. 230 houses, 54 two schools, 55 and an industrial estate. The industrial …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… elevated site on the right bank may then have been that of an important secular building. 56 That on the left bank is … an antiquarian thought, almost certainly wrongly, that two statements, that in 1139 the Empress Maud passed through … and a fair in the town, 67 and there were apparently two triangular market places or fair grounds. The north-west …