For the aerodrome, see Old Sarum Airfield. For its political history, see Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency).
A reconstruction of Old Sarum in the 12th century, housed at Salisbury Cathedral
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 (three kilometres) north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country. It is an English Heritage property and is open to the public.
The great stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury were erected nearby and indications of prehistoric settlement have been discovered from as early as 3000 BC. An Iron Age hillfort was erected around 400 BC, controlling the intersection of two trade paths and the Hampshire Avon. The site continued to be occupied during the Roman period, when the paths were made into roads. The Saxons took the British fort in the 6th century and later used it as a stronghold against marauding Vikings. The Normans constructed a motte and bailey castle, a stone curtain wall, and a great cathedral. A royal palace was built within Old Sarum Castle for King Henry I and was subsequently used by Plantagenet monarchs. This heyday of the settlement lasted for around 300 years until disputes between the Sheriff of Wiltshire and the Bishop of Salisbury finally led to the removal of the church into the nearby plain. As New Salisbury grew up around the construction site for the new cathedral in the early 13th century, the buildings of Old Sarum were dismantled for stone and the old town dwindled. Its long-neglected castle was abandoned by Edward II in 1322 and sold by Henry VIII in 1514. Edward Rutherfurd's 1987 novel Sarum traces the history of the town.
Although the settlement was effectively uninhabited, its landowners continued to have parliamentary representation into the 19th century, making it one of the most notorious of the rotten boroughs that existed before the Reform Act of 1832. Old Sarum served as a pocket borough of the Pitt family.
Old Sarum is also the name of a modern settlement north-east of the monument, where there is a grass strip airfield and a small business park, and large 21st-century housing developments.
OldSarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles...
OldSarum Cathedral was a Catholic and Norman cathedral at old Salisbury, now known as OldSarum, between 1092 and 1220. Only its foundations remain, in...
OldSarum Airfield (ICAO: EGLS) is a grass strip airfield 2 nautical miles (4 km; 2 mi) north-north-east of Salisbury, in Laverstock parish, Wiltshire...
Salisbury Plain. An ancient cathedral was north of the present city at OldSarum. A new cathedral was built near the meeting of the rivers and a settlement...
OldSarum Castle, formerly known as Seresberi Castle, is an 11th century motte-and-bailey castle built in OldSarum, Wiltshire. It was originally built...
51°04′01″N 1°47′53″W / 51.067°N 1.798°W / 51.067; -1.798 OldSarum Way is a 32-mile (51 km) long-distance footpath in Wiltshire, England that forms...
industry moved away. In the 12th century OldSarum had been a busy cathedral city, reliant on the wealth expended by Sarum Cathedral within its city precincts...
The Use of Sarum (or Use of Salisbury, also known as the Sarum Rite) is the liturgical use of the Latin rites developed at Salisbury Cathedral and used...
Sarum may refer to: either of two cities in Wiltshire, England: Salisbury formerly New Sarum Salisbury Cathedral OldSarum, the ruins of old Salisbury...
the former manor of Milford, the area near the ancient settlement of OldSarum, and part of the Hampton Park district on the edge of Salisbury. Laverstock...
Montgomerie, Hawley participated in the first major excavations of the OldSarum hillfort between 1909 and 1915. These digs were organized by the Society...
Lord Chancellor (c. 1070–1078) and as the second bishop of Salisbury, or OldSarum. Osmund, a native of Normandy, accompanied William, Duke of Normandy to...
that the Gewisse had origins among the ancient Britons at Cair-Caratauc (OldSarum) in Wiltshire. According to Saxon folklore, the Gewisse were the founders...
buy the manor of Stratford, Wiltshire and its surrounding borough of OldSarum. With that acquisition he gained a seat in the House of Commons, as it...
at the now-abandoned site of OldSarum, on a hill about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the present-day cathedral. OldSarum Cathedral was built in the years...
During the 1920 restoration, William Hawley, who had excavated nearby OldSarum, excavated the base of six stones and the outer ditch. He also located...
Cathedral and the City of Salisbury, moved from the nearby fortress of OldSarum. He served as Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of...
1801 for the pocket borough of OldSarum. When he took his seat two days later an observer described him as "very old" (he was then aged 64) and "lame"...
constituencies), while small boroughs, known as rotten or pocket boroughs—such as OldSarum with just seven voters—elected two members of Parliament each. Often,...
Abbey Maud Heath's Causeway, near Chippenham Mompesson House, Salisbury OldSarum, the site of the former cathedral Philipps House & Dinton Park Richard...
the completion of the first cathedral at OldSarum in 1092. After OldSarum was abandoned in favour of New Sarum (or Salisbury, as it came to be known)...
in 552 AD with the victory of Saxon Cynric over the native Britons at OldSarum, by which the way was opened to Salisbury Plain. Four years later, pushing...
OldSarum. Disputes between Bishops Herbert and Richard Poore and the sheriffs of Wiltshire led to the removal of the see in the 1220s to New Sarum (modern...
such as Gatton. Among the most notorious of these "rotten boroughs" were OldSarum, which had only six voters for two MPs, and Dunwich, which had largely...
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