OLD SARUM

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Old Sarum: The great earthwork of Old Sarum stands near Salisbury on the edge of Wiltshire's chalk plains. Its mighty ramparts were raised in about 500 BC by Iron Age peoples, and later occupied by the Romans, the Saxons and, most importantly, the Normans.
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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 SALISBURY

About 2 miles away

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 Mompesson House

About 2 miles away

mompesson house Elegant and spacious 18th-century house in the Cathedral Close

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 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 ...

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 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.

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 AMESBURY

About 5½ miles away

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 Stonehenge Historic Landscape

About 6 miles away

stonehenge historic landscape Ancient ceremonial landscape of great archaeological and wildlife interest

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 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.

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 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.

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 Little Clarendon

About 8 miles away

little clarendon Late 15th-century stone house

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 Philipps House & Dinton Park

About 8½ miles away

philipps house dinton park Early 19th-century neo-Grecian house

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 Netheravon Dovecote

About 10 miles away

A charming 18th-century brick dovecote, still with most of its 700 or more nesting boxes.

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 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 ...

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 Museum of Army Flying

About 11 miles away

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 FORDINGBRIDGE

About 12 miles away

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 Mottisfont Abbey Garden, House & Estate

About 13 miles away

mottisfont abbey garden house estate Historic and atmospheric riverside estate

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 Houghton Lodge Gardens

About 13 miles away

houghton lodge gardens 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 ...

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 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.

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