Old Sarum and Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire

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Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire

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Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire

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Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire

The great earthwork of Old Sarum stands near Salisbury on the edge of Wiltshire’s chalk plains. Its mighty ramparts were raised in about 500 BC by Iron Age peoples, and later occupied by the Romans, the Saxons and, most importantly, the Normans. William the Conqueror paid off his army here in 1070, and in 1086 summoned all the great landowners of England here to swear an oath of loyalty.

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Foundations of Old Sarum Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire

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Old Sarum and The Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire

The stones mark the foundations of the old cathedral. It was completed in 1190. relations between the clerics and castle guards weren't very good and in in 1219 Bishop Richard Poore decided that enough was enough, and he determined to build a new cathedral at a location several miles to the south. A settlement grew up around the site of the new cathedral, and it is this settlement that is the modern city of Salisbury

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