Place names of Calne: Sandy Ridge

The name Sandy Ridge suggests that the land contains sandy soil. The bedrock in this area of Calne is limestone from the Stanford Formation.

Sandy Ridge.

Sandy Ridge was a field called Rack Close in the 1840s, an piece of land owned by the Marquis of Lansdowne, with the name suggesting the land contained cloth-stretching frames[1]. In more recent times it was used as a coal merchants by one branch of the Angell family.

Bob Angell retired around 1990, aften ensuring that all of his drivers and staff had jobs to go to[2]. In the late 1990s, a private cu-de-sac, called Sandy Ridge was built and in 1998 a management company formed to acquire other houses in Sandy Ridge and to maintain and repair the properties and the road.



References:
[1] Cavill, P., 2018. A New Dictionary of English Field-Names. 1st ed. Great Britain: English Place-Name Society.
[2] Conversation on Facebook.