Old Sarum

Old Sarum is the site of the soonest settlement of Salisbury in England. Situated on a slope around 2 miles north of present day Salisbury close to the A345 street. The colossal stone monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury were raised close-by and signs of ancient settlement have been found from as ahead of schedule as 3000 BC. An Iron Age hill fort was raised around 400 BC, controlling the crossing point of two local exchange ways and the Hampshire Avon.

The site kept on being possessed amid the Roman time frame, when the ways moved toward becoming streets. The Saxons took the British fortification in the 16^th century and later utilized it as a fortress against raiding Vikings. The Normans built a motte and bailey stronghold, a stone drapery divider, and an incredible house of prayer. An illustrious royal residence was worked inside the mansion for King Henry I and was therefore utilized by Plantagenet rulers.

This prime of the settlement went on for around 300 years until the point when question between the Sheriff of Wiltshire and the Bishop of Salisbury at long last prompted the evacuation of the congregation into the adjacent plain. As New Salisbury grew up around the building site for the new house of prayer in the mid 13^th century, the structures of Old Sarum were destroyed for stone and the old town dwindled. Its since a long time ago dismissed mansion was surrendered by Edward II in 1322 and sold by Henry VIII in 1514.