Old Sarum
Old Sarum Airfield is a grass strip airfield 2 nautical miles north-north-east of Salisbury, in Laverstock parish, Wiltshire, England. The adjacent areas are a mix of vacant land, residential and industrial sites.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: TabstheCat, Public domain.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “EGLS” and “Old Sarum Airfield”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Sarum and Old Sarum Cathedral.
Old Sarum
Archaeological site
Photo: MARKEDWARDS, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 and Norman 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winterbourne Earls and Stratford-sub-Castle.
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.
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.
Winterbourne Dauntsey
Village
Winterbourne Dauntsey is a village in Wiltshire, England, in the Bourne valley on the A338 road about 3.5 miles northeast of Salisbury. In 1931 the parish had a population of 176.
Old Sarum
- Categories: airport, air base, and transportation
- Location: United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.09901° or 51° 5′ 56″ northLongitude
-1.78379° or 1° 47′ 2″ westElevation
266 feet (81 metres)Operator
Old Sarum Flying ClubICAO airport code
EGLSOpen location code
9C3W36X8+JFOpenStreetMap ID
way 28164172OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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In Other Languages
From French to Tajik—“Old Sarum” goes by many names.
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Old Sarum”
- Indonesian: “EGLS”
- Japanese: “オールドサラム”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Old Sarum”
- Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی اولد سروم”
- Piemontese: “Old Sarum Airfield”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи саҳро овлд сарв”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Old Sarum”. Photo: TabstheCat, Public domain.