Salisbury, Wiltshire - Harnham Gate - Valentines postcard c.1910s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Harnham Gate, Salisbury, Wiltshire
• Publisher:  Valentines series
• Postally used:  no
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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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Harnham is an affluent suburb of the cathedral City of Salisbury in Wiltshire centred 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south of its Cathedral and across the River Avon.

Harnham has had some form of human habitation in the area since the Iron Age, a settlement is marked in ordnance survey map underneath several modern houses in Harnwood Road/Old Blandford Road, a straight Roman Road.^{[n 1][1]}

Until the 19th century formation of urban and rural districts, the area lay within the Cawdon and Cawsworth Hundred of Wiltshire.^[2] Harnham appears in the 1086 Domesday Book.

The road and traffic backlog in the city was improved in 1244 by the building of Ayleswade bridge leading traffic also in from the south through Harnham, thus traffic was diverted from the older route westward through Wilton.^[3]

In 1848, Samuel Lewis (publisher) desrcibed the settlement in a topographical dictionary based partly on 1841 census statistics:

• East Harnham, a tything, in the parish of Britford, union of Alderbury, hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, Salisbury and Amesbury, and south divisions of Wilts., 1½ mile (S. E. by S.) from the city of Salisbury; containing 411 inhabitants.

• West Harnham (St George) a parish, in the union of Alderbury, hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. divisions of Wilts, 1½ mile (S. W. by W.) from Salisbury; containing 256 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Coombe-Bisset; the tithes were partly commuted for land and money payments under an Inclosure Act in 1783; and the remainder have been commuted for a rentcharge of £50.^[4]

Harnham consists of two wards: West and East Harnham, which currently have a combined population of around 7,300^[5] West Harnham, formerly a countrified civil parish adjacent to New Salisbury was absorbed into the administration of one civil parish of Salisbury following the lead of East Harnham in 1903 ^[3]itself joining the city of Salisbury in 1927 at the same time as parts of Laverstock, Stratford and Bemerton.^[6]

Harnham lies to the south of Salisbury and is linked to the city by road via the Ayleswade Bridge in East Harnham, originally constructed across the River Avon in 1244, and by foot via the Town Path across the ""historic and important landscape""^[7] of the Harnham Water Meadows in West Harnham. The meadows lie between two branches of the River Nadder and extend into the outskirts of the city itself. They are part of an extensive irrigation system of floated water meadows, dating from the mid-seventeenth century. Now a Site of Special Scientific Interest (see East Harnham Meadows) they are still used for grazing and were voted the Best View in Britain by Country Life magazine in 2002. The meadows were made famous in John Constable's painting ‘Salisbury Cathedral - A View from the Water Meadow’. The meadows are managed by the Harnham Water Meadows Trust [1] and owned by the Trust jointly with the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral.^[8]

Harnham is the suburb of the city with the largest areas of housing valued at more than £400,000.^[9]

In the 13th century Salisbury sited its new Cathedral on the flat fertile plain encircled by the River Avon and protected by Harnham Hill; a chalk escarpment which rises steeply to the south. Harnham Slope comprises an area of woodland on the northern slope of Harnham Hill, including the West Harnham Chalk Pit a 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. Harnham Slope, its upper slope, is now managed as a public amenity space which, from its highest point, gives fine views across Harnham to the city including Salisbury Cathedral's highest current spire in the United Kingdom.

type=printed

city/ region=salisbury

period=pre-1914

publisher=valentines

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)