Old Sarum

Old Sarum Airfield is a grass strip airfield 2 miles } north-north-east of , in Laverstock parish, Wiltshire, England. The adjacent areas are a mix of vacant land, residential and industrial sites.
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Wikipedia
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  • 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.

Archaeological site
Photo: MARKEDWARDS, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, in , , is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of . 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.

Archaeological site
Photo: Bob Castle, Public domain.
was a cathedral at old Salisbury, England, now known as , 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, .

Restaurant
Photo: David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a restaurant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winterbourne Earls and Stratford-sub-Castle.

Village
Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England. The village is in the Bourne valley on the A338 road, about 3.4 miles northeast of . In 1931, the parish had a population of 242.

Village
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in , England, was anciently a separate village and civil parish, but is now in . 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.

Village
is a village in , England, in the Bourne valley on the A338 road about 3.5 miles northeast of . In 1931 the parish had a population of 176.

Old Sarum

Latitude
51.09901° or 51° 5′ 56″ north
Longitude
-1.78379° or 1° 47′ 2″ west
Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)
Operator
Old Sarum Flying Club
ICAO airport code
EGLS
Open location code
9C3W36X8+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28164172
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
11711412
Wiki­data ID
Q3915612
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Satellite Map

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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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