Calne
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Calne is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, southwestern England, at the northwestern extremity of the North Wessex Downs hill range, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
River Marden, Calne town centre
Bronze sculpture in Calne commemorating the town's longstanding pork-curing industry, by local artist Richard Cowdy
A view of Calne from the canal, 1828
The Head, a Rick Kirby modernist sculpture in a central position outside Calne library on The Strand
Bowood House
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Bowood is a Grade I listed Georgian country house in Wiltshire, England, that has been owned for more than 250 years by the Fitzmaurice family. The house, with interiors by Robert Adam, stands in exte
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…towns of central Berkshire. The development's name reflects its proximity to the seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne, whose family have owned the nearby Bowood House country estate since 1784. The Porte Marsh Industrial Estate on the north side of the town provides the bulk of the town's internal employment, and is…
Bowood House from Morris's County Seats (1880). The block on the right is the "Big House", which has been demolished. The wing on the left, starting with the short tower, remains.
Italianate terrace gardens at Bowood
The Doric Temple folly in the landscape gardens designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown
The Adam Room, as reinstalled at Lloyd's building, London