Old Sarum
SalisburyA windswept Iron Age hillfort and Norman castle site above Salisbury, where the city's first cathedral once stood.
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Phillips Lane, Stratford-sub-Castle, SP1 3YS
Quick facts
The Iron Age hillfort, possibly begun around 400 BC, became the Roman settlement of Sorviodunum and later a Norman castle and cathedral site.
The cathedral moved to the new city of Salisbury in the 1220s, and by 1540 no inhabited houses remained.
It kept electing two Members of Parliament with almost no residents until the 1832 Reform Act.
Address
Phillips Lane, Stratford-sub-Castle, SP1 3YS
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