Calne
Calne is a Town in the county of Wiltshire.
There are great places to visit near Calne including some great historic monuments, ancient sites, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and villages.
Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill White Horse, and Avebury are great places to visit near Calne if you like historic monuments.
Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill are some of Calne best ancient sites to visit near Calne.
Avebury Manor is one of Calne's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Calne.
There are a number of country parks near to Calne including Coate Water Country Park.
Places near Calne feature a number of interesting lakes including Coate Water.
Ashton Keynes is a great place to visit close to Calne if you like villages.
Calne History
There are some historic monuments around Calne:
Places to see near Calne
History of Calne
In 1086 Calne may already have been, as it was later, a market town on the main London-Bristol road. The church in it was well endowed. 74 or more households were held almost outright by burghal tenure (as citizens of a borough), and the lordship of its large outlying land was divided between the king (of whom 45 burgesses were tenants) and the church. In the Middle Ages the king’s successor as the lord of Calne manor and, as owner of the church’s revenues, the treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, each had the right to hold a market and a fair in the town, with two triangular market places or fair grounds. A modest hospital was provided on a modest endowment from 1248 until it provided no accommodation in 1546 and was sold two years later by the Crown.
