Evie’s Book Swap Network hosts small little libraries across our community. You can pick up a book at any book swap and replace it when you’re finished at any book swap stop.
This 2.5 mile walk will take you around the wonderfully diverse art in Calne, taking in both the urban environment of the town centre and some of the green spaces along the Abberd Brook and Castlefields park.
The Calne Blue Plaque Trail is a fascinating walk around the centre of the town in the Heritage Quarter visiting ten points of interest.
Approaching the entrance to Calne library, you will see the bronze relief of Jan Ingenhousz. Looking away from the library you will see the pavement designed to look like a leaf.
Jan Ingenhousz is the genius who solved the mysteries of photosynthesis.
He was buried within St Mary‘s Church, Calne, in 1799 and is remembered by this bronze relief head at the entrance to Calne Library. The head is surrounded by a star shape representing the sun.
Snaking down from this bronze relief towards The Head is paving in the form of a leaf, made from dark grey and white granite setts.
David Reeves designed the paving and made the ceramic inserts, while the modelled head of Ingenhousz is by Vivien ap Rhys Pryce.
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