Old Sarum

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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 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 Castle Inn

Restaurant

Photo: David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Old Castle Inn is a restaurant.

Places in the Area

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.

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