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| Ridgemead |
Ridgemead is so named due to it being on land that was also known as Ridgemead. In the 1840s Tithe map, this was 309, a piece owned and occupied by Lord Hungerford Crewe, known as a landowner and peer.
John Field, in his English Field Names[i] describes the two parts of the Ridgemead as follows:
Ridge, a basic unit of ploughing in common arable fields.
Mead(ow), grassland that is kept for mowing.
So, we can assume that this was a common field that was kept for harvesting grass.
Ridgemead was built in the 1950s, after Calne Borough Council bought land at Newcroft Farm in 1954.
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