page_title: Calne
section_title: Arts and tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Calne / Arts and tourism
caption_attribution_description: English: ‘The Head’, Calne This sculpture was created in response to a millennium competition initiated by the then Mayor of Calne in 2000. The winner was Rick Kirby with this work. The rear of the piece, with its open, incomplete lattice points to the challenges of the future.
context_page_description: 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.
  Calne is on a small river, the Marden, that rises 2 miles away in the Wessex Downs, and is the only town on that river. It is on the A4 road national route 19 mi east of Bath, 6 mi east of Chippenham, 13 mi west of Marlborough and 16 mi southwest of Swindon. Wiltshire's county town of Trowbridge is 15 mi to the southwest, with London 82 mi due east as the crow flies. At the 2011 Census, Calne had 17,274 inhabitants.
context_section_description: Tourism is described in nearby places of interest below, with details of the surrounding historic and landscape attractions. Within the town the annual Calne Music & Arts Festival was established in 1975.
  In 2014 the town entered the South West in Bloom area of the Britain in Bloom competition and won a Gold Award for the first time. The award is judged on both the town council's floral displays and those of the community projects whose groups have entered in the 'It's Your Neighbourhood' category of the awards.
caption: The Head, a Rick Kirby modernist sculpture in a paved square by the Lansdowne Strand
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