Place Names of Calne: Bishop Road

Photo Credit: Lucy Havenith
Know your place. 2017 Basemap with 1840s
tithe map overlayed showing the current
Bishop Road and the plot number
from the 1840s.

The 1840s Tithe map shows Bishop Road as plot 313. This was owned and occupied by John Dommett Bishop and was called Bryant's Close & Theobald's Piece. It was listed as arable land.

The land eventually became part of C. & T. Harris owned Newcroft Farm, which Calne Town Council acquired for development in the 1950s and 1960s.

Not only was  John Dommett Bishop a GP, living at a '1 Marsh Cottage', Calne in the 1861 census[1], he was also the Calne Town mayor in 1863, 1873, 1883, 1888 and 1893[2].

Bishop Road, built in the 1950s on what used to be Henley Road. Interestingly there was a Bishops Road further down Bryans Close Road, which is now Fynamore Place. Bishop Road is one of many streets in Calne named after previous mayors, and they will be discussed in subsequent posts.



The terraces of Bishop Road use a great mix of pebble dash and render to create character in the form of different shapes.

References:
[1] FreeCEN - UK Census Records (England, Scotland, Wales). 2019. FreeCEN - UK Census Records (England, Scotland, Wales). [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/59069478e9379091b10bda13?search_id=5c4d4312f493fd6c6ea49b95 . [Accessed 27 January 2019].
[2] Marsh, A., 1903. A HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF CALNE. 1st ed. London: HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LTD.