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 some of Calne best historic monuments to visit near Calne.
Calne has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, The Sanctuary, and Silbury Hill.
Avebury Manor is one of Calne's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Calne.
Coate Water Country Park is one of Calne's best, nearby country parks to visit in Calne.
Calne is near some unmissable lakes like Coate Water,
There are a number of villages near to Calne including Ashton Keynes.
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.
