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Old Sarum
The hilltop site of the first Salisbury, with an Iron Age fort, a Norman castle and the outline of an old cathedral.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Castle Road, Salisbury SP1 3SDDirections
- Getting There
- About 1.9 miles north of Salisbury by bus or car.
Why Go
People built an Iron Age hillfort here around 400 BC, and the Romans, Saxons and Normans followed. The Normans raised a castle and a cathedral inside the ramparts, but the bishop moved down to the river in the 1220s and founded the new city of Salisbury. The cathedral's foundations are laid out in the grass, with views to today's spire.
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