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Historical Description Direct link to this section Salisbury or New Sarum, is situated in a valley, near the conflux of three rivers, the Avon, the Nadder, and the Willey, which divide themselves into small streams, that are conducted through and water the streets. This circumstance tends very much to promote the health of the inhabitants, by occasioning a more rapid circulation of air, and by washing away the filth which might otherwise accumulate upon so level a situation.
The streets of Salisbury are in general wide and regular, being at right angles with each other. The Market-Place is a very large open square, and the whole appearance of the town is particularly agreeable. The ancient Sorbiodunum, or Old Sarum, is about a mile north of Salisbury. It is to this place the present city owes its origin. The name is supposed to be derived from a British compound word signifying a dry situation, and the Saxons, who called this place Searysbyrie, seem to have a reference to the same circumstance, Searan in the Saxon language signifying to dry.
Want to find a sex partner? It is easy. Click here NOW, registration is free!Leland supposes Sorbiodunum to have been a British post, prior to the arrival of the Romans, with whom it afterwards became a principal station, or Castra Stativa. Besides the evidence of the itineraries, and the several roads of that people which here concentrate, the great number of Roman coins found within the limits of its walls, sufficiently prove its occupation as a place of consequence by that people. Leland mentions this place as having been very ancient and exceeding strong.
It covers the summit of a high steep hill, which originally rose equally on all sides to a point. The area was nearly feet in diameter, surrounded by a fosse or ditch of great depth, and two ramparts, some remains of which are still to be seen. On the inner rampart, which was much the highest, stood a wall nearly twelve feet thick, made of flint and chalk strongly cemented together, and cased with hewn stone, on the top of which was a parapet with battlements quite round. Of this wall there are some remains still to be seen, particularly on the north-west side.