Place names of Calne: Wenhill Heights and Wenhill Lane

Wenhill Heights

Wenhill Heights was build c. late 1980s by Persimmon Homes as a development of detached and semi-detached properties in primarily red brick and stone.

The name Wenhill comes from the common field, known on the 1831 boundary map of Calne as Went Hills and in c. 1728 as Win Hill. The name for this field has had many names, and by the 1840s tithes had the following names: Whenhill, Wenhills, and Wenhill.  After the enclosures of the early 1800s, 28 acres of the Wenhill common field was converted into a park for Vern Leaze (16 Silver Street).

Wenhill Lane is an early road that would have been in use prior to the Bristol road, now the A4, started to take traffic[1]. Wenhill Lane now leads to Wenhill Cottages.


References:
[1] Calne: Introduction | British History Online. 2019. Calne: Introduction | British History Online. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol17/pp27-34. [Accessed 23 October 2019].