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| Looking towards The Strand from the river Marden. |
The Strand in Calne primarily includes the Lansdowne Strand, the Town Hall, Calne library, the Old Bankhouse - and the area of road that connects those buildings: under which, the river Marden flows.
The earliest map I can find which labels the area as 'The Strand' is the 1886 OS map of Calne, which shows a similar route to the Marden as now; with the river bending southwards down to the wharf.
The only physical sign that you'll see these days to let you know you're on The Strand is on the building of the Lansdowne Strand Hotel, as in the photograph below. If this hotel hadn't been renamed from Lansdowne Arms to the Lansdowne Strand, to reduce confusion with the Lansdowne Arms in Derry Hill, then there likely would be no physical evidence of the place name in the area.
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| Lansdowne Strand Hotel. |
To discover more about the place names of Calne, buy the book:
[1] strand - Wiktionary. 2019. strand - Wiktionary. [ONLINE] Available at: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/strand. [Accessed 06 January 2019].
