Old Sarum Castle

Old Sarum Castle, formerly known as Seresberi Castle, is an 11th century motte-and-bailey castle built in Old Sarum, Wiltshire. It was originally built in timber and it was eventually built in stone, of which the ruins can be seen today.

Photo: MARKEDWARDS, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Old Sarum and Old Sarum Cathedral.

Old Sarum

Archaeological site

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Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country.

Old Sarum Cathedral

Archaeological site

Photo: Bob Castle, Public domain.

Old Sarum Cathedral was a Catholic cathedral at old Salisbury, England, now known as Old Sarum, between 1092 and 1220. Only its foundations remain, in the north-west quadrant of the circular outer bailey of the site, about 2 miles north of its 13th-century replacement, Salisbury Cathedral. Old Sarum Cathedral is situated 520 feet northwest of Old Sarum Castle.

Old Castle Inn

Restaurant

Photo: David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Old Castle Inn is a restaurant, which is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Old Sarum Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stratford-sub-Castle and Bemerton.

Stratford-sub-Castle

Village

Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stratford sub Castle in Wiltshire, England, was anciently a separate village and civil parish, but is now in Salisbury. At approximately 170 ft above sea level, it is dominated to the east by the remains of an Iron Age hillfort, within the boundaries of which a Norman castle was built.

Bemerton

Suburb

Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bemerton, once a rural hamlet and later a civil parish to the west of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, England, is now a suburb of that city. Modern-day Bemerton has areas known as Bemerton Heath, Bemerton Village and Lower Bemerton.

Winterbourne Earls

Village

Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Winterbourne Earls is a village in Wiltshire, England. The village is in the Bourne valley on the A338 road, about 3.4 miles northeast of Salisbury. In 1931, the parish had a population of 242. Winterbourne Earls is situated 2½ miles northeast of Old Sarum Castle.

Old Sarum Castle

Type: Castle
Description: castle in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.09322° or 51° 5′ 36″ north

Longitude

-1.80479° or 1° 48′ 17″ west

Elevation

358 feet (109 metres)

Open location code

9C3W35VW+73

OpenStreetMap ID

way 149504034

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

GeoNames ID

6287180

Wikidata ID

Q24661837

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Old Sarum Castle” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Old Sarum Castle”
Swedish: “Old Sarum Castle”
Turkish: “Eski Sarum Kalesi”

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