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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in the county of , in the at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. , a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is 13 km northwest of Salisbury.
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  • Type: City with 45,000 residents
  • Description: cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “City of New Sarum”, “New Sarum”, “Salisbury, England”, and “Salisbury, Wiltshire”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Salisbury Cathedral and Old Sarum.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Salisbury, England. The cathedral is regarded as one of the leading examples of Early English Gothic design.

Archaeological site
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, in , , 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.

Railway station
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serves the cathedral city of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, England. It lies 83 miles 43 chains from on the West of England line to ; this is crossed by the Wessex Main Line from to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wilton and Harnham.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in , England. Lying about 3 miles west of the city of Salisbury, and until 1889 the county town of Wiltshire, it has a rich heritage dating back to the Anglo-Saxons.

Suburb
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is a suburb of the city of Salisbury in , England, centred about 0.6 miles south of and across the River Avon. is split into the areas of West and East .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England, in the south of the county around 3 miles southeast of Salisbury. The parish includes the village of Whaddon, which is adjacent to , and the hamlet of Shute End.

Salisbury

Latitude
51.0691° or 51° 4′ 9″ north
Longitude
-1.7954° or 1° 47′ 44″ west
Population
45,000
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
IATA airport code
XSR
United Nations Location Code
GB SLS
Open location code
9C3W3693+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1586199140
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2638664
Wiki­data ID
Q160642
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Salisbury” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Salisbury”
  • Amharic: “ሳሊስቡሪ”
  • Amharic: “ሳልዝብሪ”
  • Arabic: “سالزبوري”
  • Arabic: “ساليسبري (انجلترا)”
  • Arabic: “ساليسبري”
  • Armenian: “Սոլսբերի”
  • Asturian: “Salisbury”
  • Azerbaijani: “Solsberi”
  • Basque: “Salisbury”
  • Belarusian: “Солсберы”
  • Belarusian: “Солсбэры”
  • Bengali: “সল্‌স্‌বারি”
  • Bengali: “স্যালিস্‌বারি”
  • Breton: “Kergaradog / Salisbury”
  • Breton: “Salisbury”
  • Bulgarian: “Солзбъри”
  • Bulgarian: “Солсбъри”
  • Catalan: “Salisbury”
  • Cebuano: “Salisbury (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Salisbury”
  • Chinese: “Salisbury”
  • Chinese: “梳士巴利”
  • Chinese: “沙律士伯雷”
  • Chinese: “索尔兹伯里”
  • Chinese: “索爾茲伯里”
  • Chuvash: “Солсбери”
  • Cornish: “Carsallek”
  • Cornish: “Karsallek”
  • Croatian: “Salisbury”
  • Czech: “Salisbury”
  • Danish: “Salisbury”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Salisbury”
  • Dutch: “Salisbury”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سولسبرى”
  • Esperanto: “Salisbury”
  • Estonian: “Salisbury”
  • Faroese: “Salisbury”
  • Finnish: “Salisbury”
  • French: “Salesbières”
  • French: “Salisbury”
  • Galician: “Salisbury”
  • Georgian: “სოლსბერი”
  • German: “New Sarum”
  • German: “Salisbury”
  • Greek: “Σαλισβερία”
  • Greek: “Σόλσμπερι, Αγγλία”
  • Greek: “Σόλσμπερι”
  • Gujarati: “સેલીસ્બરી”
  • Hebrew: “סולסברי”
  • Hindi: “सैलिसबरी”
  • Hungarian: “Salisbury”
  • Icelandic: “Salisbury”
  • Ido: “Salisbury”
  • Indonesian: “Salisbury, Inggris”
  • Indonesian: “Salisbury”
  • Irish: “Salisbury”
  • Italian: “Salisbury”
  • Japanese: “サリスベリー”
  • Japanese: “ソールズベリー”
  • Javanese: “Salisbury, Inggris”
  • Kannada: “ಸಲಿಸ್ಬರಿ”
  • Korean: “솔즈베리”
  • Kurdish: “Salisbury”
  • Ladin: “Salisbury”
  • Latin: “Sarisberia”
  • Latin: “Sarisburia”
  • Latvian: “Solsberi”
  • Lithuanian: “Salisburis”
  • Lithuanian: “Solsberis”
  • Malagasy: “Salisbury”
  • Malay: “Salisbury”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯥꯂꯤꯁ꯭ꯕꯔꯤ”
  • Marathi: “सॉल्झब्री”
  • Mazanderani: “سالزبری”
  • Mazanderani: “سالزبورگ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salisbury”
  • Moksha: “Солсбэри”
  • Narom: “Salesbire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Salisbury”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salisbury”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salisbury”
  • Norwegian: “Salisbury”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salisbury”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Searoburg”
  • Ossetian: “Солсбери”
  • Persian: “سالزبری”
  • Polish: “Salisbury”
  • Portuguese: “Salisbury”
  • Romanian: “Salisbury”
  • Russian: “Солсбери”
  • Scots: “Salisbury”
  • Serbian: “Solzberi”
  • Serbian: “Салсбури”
  • Serbian: “Солсбери”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salisbury”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Solzberi”
  • Silesian: “Salisbury”
  • Sinhala: “සැලිස්බරි”
  • Slovak: “Salisbury”
  • Slovenian: “Salisbury”
  • Spanish: “Salisbury (Inglaterra)”
  • Spanish: “Salisbury (Wiltshire)”
  • Spanish: “Salisbury”
  • Swedish: “Salisbury”
  • Tagalog: “Salisbury”
  • Tamil: “சலீஸ்புரி”
  • Telugu: “సాలిస్బరీ”
  • Thai: “Salisbury”
  • Thai: “ซอลสบรี”
  • Thai: “ซอลส์บรี”
  • Turkish: “Salisbury”
  • Ukrainian: “Солсбері”
  • Urdu: “سالسبری”
  • Vietnamese: “Salisbury”
  • Volapük: “Salisbury”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salisbury”
  • Welsh: “Caersallog”
  • Welsh: “Caersallwg”
  • Welsh: “Salisbury”
  • Western Frisian: “Salisbury”
  • Western Panjabi: “سالسبری”
  • Wu Chinese: “索尔兹伯里”
  • Yue Chinese: “梳士巴利”
  • “Salisbury”

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