01/10/2021

Place Names of Calne: Northfields

Northfields

Northfields was a developement that was built at the end of North End, along with Braemor Road and Corfe Crescent in the 1960s.

Back in the 1840s, the land that is now Northfields, was plot number 193 for the tithe awards. This was one of the many plots owned by the Marquis of Lansdowne, Henry Petty Fitzmaurice and was one of the plots within North Field and was used as arable land.

This was one of the most northerly fields of Calne.