𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭

With Calne Town Council's Amenities, Conservation & Sustainability Manager, Councillor Celia Stevens and I worked with Caitlin at Wiltshire Council's Grant Application and Planting Support (GAPS) team apply for funding to plant trees and hedgerows.

This was an exhaustive project taking place over many months including desktop surveys and creating location maps, along with onsite visits throughout Calne.

I am pleased to report that we have been successful in our grant application for substantial tree and hedgerow planting across Calne, which will result in close to 70 trees being planted at various locations in Calne and around 250 metres of hedgerow at Beversbrook Sports Facility.

The total fund which covers the initial purchase and planting of the trees as well as 15 years of future maintenance came to over £40,000.

Many thanks to all involved in this project.

Place Names of Calne: Victoria Terrace

Victoria Terrace is named for Alexandrina Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901). Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death and Empress of India from 1 May 1876. Her reign lasted for 63 years, 216 days, second only to our current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Victoria reigned during a time of massive expansion for the British Emprire and the people of the Victorian Era were well known for their knowledge and daring in all things engineering, scientific, industrial, and military.

Providence Row, Victoria Terrace

Victoria married her cousin Prince Albert in 1840 and to reinforce the connection of this street name to Queen Victoria, the impressive Albert Villa (1 Victoria Terrace) sits on the corner of North Street and Victoria Terrace, completing the pair.

Victoria Terrace was built mostly by 1885, with one set of terraced housing, Providence Row built in 1870 by Mr. James Cleverley who acquired the land from the estate of George Shadforth Ogilvie. Victoria Terrace continued as a private road, at least until 1890, however it seems that there was resistance from the property owners at the time in passing the street over to the authorities, even when the authorities had paid for improved sewers in 1889[1]. However, in 1890, when they asked the council for a street lamp to be erected, the Clerk took no time in writing to them to advise that as long as the street remained private, the responsibility was theirs, and further to this, the authority was now calling upon the property owners to install a lamp![2] Unfortunately the saga does not appear to continue in the newspapers.

References:
[1]'Victoria Terrace Sewer'  Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, Thursday 18 April 1889 [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000360/18890418/065/0007 [Accessed on 1 October 2019]
[2] 'Calne Urban Saniatary Authority and the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act'  Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, Thursday 23 January 1890 [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000360/18900123/065/0008 [Accessed on 1 October 2019]