# Old Sarum, the first Salisbury

What to do en Salisbury · Salisbury

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/things-to-do/old-sarum · Revisado: 2026-11-12

- Duración: 1 h 30
- Temporada: All year; check the winter opening days
- Para quién: All ages; embankments with room to run

Ruins · 1 h 30 · English Heritage · castle and cathedral on an Iron Age hill

A hill ringed by Iron Age ditches, 3 km north of Salisbury, where Romans, Saxons and Normans settled one after another. The Normans built a castle and the first cathedral; in the 13th century the bishop moved down to the valley and founded the Salisbury of today. What remains are the castle walls, the outline of the cathedral marked out in the grass and views across the plain in which you can see the new spire.
It belongs to English Heritage: buy online up to the day before and it costs less. You can get here on the Stonehenge bus, which stops here, by car, or on foot along the Avon valley in an hour.

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Coordenadas: 51.0937, -1.8042

## Cerca de aquí

- [The Haunch of Venison](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/where-to-eat/haunch-of-venison), a 2.8 km
- [The Red Lion Hotel](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/where-to-stay/red-lion-hotel), a 2.9 km
- [Sarum College](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/where-to-stay/sarum-college), a 3.0 km
- [Guided climb up the tower of Salisbury Cathedral](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/things-to-do/salisbury-cathedral-tower-tour), a 3.2 km
- [Salisbury Cathedral and Magna Carta](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/things-to-do/salisbury-cathedral-and-magna-carta), a 3.2 km
- [Salisbury Museum, the archaeology of Stonehenge](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/things-to-do/salisbury-museum), a 3.3 km
- [A walk through the Harnham water meadows to the Old Mill](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/things-to-do/harnham-water-meadows-walk), a 3.5 km
- [The Old Mill](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury/where-to-eat/the-old-mill), a 3.6 km

Destino: [Salisbury](https://www.geocalia.com/en/england/salisbury.md)