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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2899 Status:

the oldest building?
my guess would be either castle street or anchor road.

WeAreSTFC · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: Where in calne would you find

Bear · Bentlian Oldboy Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 880 Status:

My guess would be one of the churches or one of the pubs however the oldest dwellings would have to be the old alms houses on the road from Church Street to The Green

Clunk · Ejected Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 935 Status:

There is a georgian house on the green. (I think)

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2899 Status:

rosco · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

Landsdown Arms in the centre is certainly pretty old, isn't it?

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2899 Status:

i HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THIS
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http://www.beerguide.co.uk/old/towns/calne.htm

i never realised the bug was as old as this..

also found that st peter church blacklands part was built in the 13th century but offically it never joined the calne parish untill 1997
.http://www.calne.org.uk/calne&blackland_parish/index.shtml#St.peter

the oldest church st marys according to this which is quite a intresting article.
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/display.var.1160180.0.0.php

not sure if its the oldest building though :?

WeAreSTFC · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:48 am Post subject:

Clunk · Ejected Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 935 Status:

Isn't there remains of a 15th century mill house at keevils?

Kizzy · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject:

Lansdowne Strand Hotel - 1565
White Hart - 1659
St Marys - 1400's
St Peters - 1200's

There won't be many more buildings older than 17th Century as there was a large fire that broke out in the 1300's which destroyed a fair bit of Calne at the time as they were mainly timber and straw.

Found it on this site

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=63
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