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A Short Visit to Wiltshire: #3 Salisbury.
The City is More Than Its Cathedral.
This short series of posts, relating to places of interest in the English County of Wiltshire, is intended to help visitors know what to expect. I’m not presenting any real details of history, etc., simply describing as well as I can, with the aid of photographs, how to get there and what you might see. There are links to more informative sites for each place listed.
What is it? Salisbury is a city in southern Wiltshire. It’s about 9 miles south of the famous Stonehenge (of which, more later in this series). And its cathedral houses one of the original copies of the Magna Carta.
Where is it? The city lies at the conjunction of the A36, A338, and A354 about 25 miles northwest of Southampton (Map here)
Salisbury, of course, is the city that’s home to the famous cathedral. It’s rumoured to be the place William Golding used as the model for his novel, The Spire’, a book I studied for my ‘A’ level English Literature exam. We used the city as a base for our exploration of a number of ancient sites in the area, and we stayed at a hotel not far from the cathedral.
Fortunately, they had a very good pictorial map of the place, which we used to take our walks around the place. That map allowed us to see parts of the city…
