Place names of Calne: Fynamore Gardens, Fynamore Place, Fynamore Community Primary School

Fynamore Community Primary SchoolFynamore Gardens, Fynamore Place, and Fynamore Primary School are all named for Walter Fynamore/Fynemore (d.1557), lord of Whetham manor. He gave a rent charge from the Crown Inn (which was on the East side of the High Street)[1] of £2 to provide a teacher for 10 poor children[2]. In the 16th and early 17th centuries, schoolmasters taught at Calne within a free school, which received income from a small endowment and Fynemore's £2.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Fynemore's representatives appointed schoolmasters. When, in 1828, a boys National School superceded the charity schools, it received the income from the endowments left by Fynemore and Woodroffe. After this, the money was used to provide a scholarship at Calne county school, and from 1977 was used along with the endowment from John Bentley.

Fynamore Gardens
Fynamore Gardens is a modern collection of red brick detached housing built c. 1998 - 2000 by Alfred McApine Homes and seems to have been the reason for the roundabout at the entrance to the estate.

Preceding the current Fynamore primary school was Fynemore school, a comprehensive school built off Silver Street. It was called Fynemore school from 1964 until it merged with the John Bentley comprehensive school in 1974, later John Bentley school. Known as north wing, this site was in use as a school until 1998, after which it was demolished as the land was sold to fund extensions at John Bentley school south wing and Fynamore Gardens was constructed.
Fynamore Place
Fynamore Place
Fynamore Place is a series of buildings built off Bryans Close Road as social housing and managed by GreenSquare.


Fynamore Community Primary School
This school was built by Persimmon Homes as part of a 1400 housing development called Lansdowne Park. The school was named after Walter Fynemore by the school governors and opened in September 2001.




References:
[1] Marsh, A., 1903. A HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF CALNE. 1st ed. London: HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LTD.
[2] Calne: Education | British History Online. 2019. Calne: Education | British History Online. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol17/pp111-114. [Accessed 08 October 2019].