Old Sarum
Old Sarum is a peak in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England and has an elevation of 400 feet. Old Sarum is situated nearby to the village Stratford-sub-Castle, as well as near the locality North Hill Down.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 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 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.
Old Sarum
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 400 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.09318° or 51° 5′ 35″ northLongitude
-1.80479° or 1° 48′ 17″ westElevation
400 feet (122 metres)Open location code
9C3W35VW+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 10021307394OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12616113
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