OLD SARUM
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. A ...more
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Nearby Attractions
Tourist attractions that are nearest to Old Sarum.
Heale House Gardens
About 2½ miles away
A treasure garden beside the Avon, designed by Harold Peto in Edwardian and Tudor styles - terraced garden with clipped yew and Chilmark stonework; but Peto's Edwardian style gives way to luxuriant ...
Wilton House
About 3 miles away
The chief architectural features are the magnificent 17th century state apartments (including the famous Single and Double Cube rooms) and the 19th century cloisters.
Stonehenge Historic Landscape
About 6 miles away
Ancient ceremonial landscape of great archaeological and wildlife interest
Stonehenge
About 6 miles away
The great and ancient stone circle of Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world. What visitors see today are the substantial remnants of the last in a sequence of such monuments erected between circa 3000BC and 1600BC.
Woodhenge
About 7 miles away
Neolithic monument, dating from about 2300 BC, with concrete markers replacing six concentric rings of timber posts, once possibly supporting a ring shaped building.
Breamore House
About 8½ miles away
Gabled Elizabethan manor house of deep red brick with interiors rebuilt in 1856. Fine collection of paintings and furniture, including 14 paintings looted from Philip IV of Spain. Collection also ...
Newhouse
About 9 miles away
A curious triangular building using 2-inch thick bricks, erected by the same family which built Longford Castle, also triangular. Begun in 1619 as a hunting lodge, it points outwards like a figure ...
Netheravon Dovecote
About 10 miles away
A charming 18th-century brick dovecote, still with most of its 700 or more nesting boxes.
Hamptworth Lodge
About 10 miles away
An Edwardian recreation of a house originally built c. 1620, and rebuilt by Sir Guy Dawber between 1910-1914 in brick and timber in the Elizabethan/Jacobean style. Interiors include much Elizabethan ...
Mottisfont Abbey Garden, House & Estate
About 13 miles away
Houghton Lodge Gardens
About 13 miles away
Stunningly situated on a hilltop, overlooking an open and gently curving stretch of the River Test with its swans and water meadows, this Grade II* Historic House is a unique example of an 18th ...
Old Wardour Castle
About 13 miles away
One of England's most romantic castles, in a secluded lakeside setting Built in the late 14th century for John, fifth Lord Lovel, this unusual six-sided castle was unique in medieval English architecture.













