Salisbury, Wiltshire - The Close - real photo postcard c.1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Pretty Corner, The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire - real photo type
• Publisher:  none given
• Postally used:  no - written and stamped but not posted or franked
• Stamp:  2&half red Wilding (unused)
• Postmark(s):  none
• Sent to:  Dunnington
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Salisbury (/'s??lzbri/ SAWLZ-bree or /'s?lzbri/ SOLZ-bree, or locally /'s??zbri/) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county (the largest being Swindon). It has also been called New Sarum /?nju? 's??r?m/ to distinguish it from the original site of settlement to the north of the city at Old Sarum, but this alternative name is not in common use.

The city is located in the south-east of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. It sits at the confluence of five rivers: the Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne are tributary to the Avon, which flows to the south coast and into the sea at Christchurch, Dorset. Salisbury railway station serves the city, and is the crossing point between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line, making it a regional interchange.

Although the actual city was not established until 1220, there has been a settlement in the area since prehistory. There is evidence of Neolithic settlement on the hilltop of Old Sarum, which became a hill fort in the Iron Age. The Romans called this fort ""Sorviodunum"" and may also have occupied the fort. The Saxons established themselves there called it ""Searesbyrig""^[1][2][3] and the Normans built a castle or ""Seresberi"". By 1086, in the Domesday Book, it was called ""Salesberie"".^[4]

The first Salisbury Cathedral was built on the hill by St Bishop Osmund between 1075 and 1092. A larger building was built on the same site circa 1120. However, deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum led to the decision to re-site the cathedral elsewhere. Even in the 12th century, Peter of Blois had described the old church as ""a captive within the walls of the citadel like the ark of God in the profane house of Baal"". He made the appeal —

Let us descend into the plain! There are rich fields and fertile valleys abounding in the fruits of the earth and watered by the living stream. There is a seat for the Virgin Patroness of our church to which the world cannot produce a parallel.^[5]

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=wiltshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted