Salisbury!

I've broken Salisbury up into 4 seperate blog posts: Salisbury Cathedral, Church of St. Thomas Beckett, Cathedral Close and all the rest. Welcome to All of the Rest!

In the meantime, here are some fun facts about Salisbury:

salisbury can also be called New Sarum to distringuish it from the original site of settlement to the nort of the city at Old Sarum.

While the current city was not established until 1220, there has been a settlement in the area since prehistory.

Here's a lovely old gate.
And a close-up of the dude on the gate. Looks like he should be a king or something, but there's no sign.
This is the 15th century poultry cross in Salisbury. There has been a regular market in Salisbury since 1227. In the 15th century the Market Place was dotted with stone crosses marking the centres for certain trads and goods - today only the poultry cross remains, to which flying buttresses were added in 1852.

Salisbury has lots of lovely old buildings - you can tell that they are old since they hang over themselves - each additional floor sticks out onto the street a bit more than the last.

Where to go, where to go...
This is the tower of one of the smaller, less interessting churches in Salisbury. I think we went into this one, but there was just an antiques market in the basement.
The river that flows under the Old Mill.
Another church spire poking out above some of the other buildings on the mill grounds.
This is the Fisherton Street Clock Tower. That's all I know. Wikipedia is useless for this one, so it can't be that old.
Walking down the canal over to the meadow!
The meadow!!
Here come the baby ducks! (We had thrown some crumbled scone on the ground... that's what tempted them)
But they sure were cute.
The swans soon showed up and bumped the baby ducks out of the way in search of scone.
I like this photo because to me, it looks like they are making a heart shape.
We snapped a photo of thise house one afternoon, mainly because it looks so old.
And, to top it off, after one particularly miserable downpour of rain while we were trying to both walk home and eat ice cream, we were greeted by a very bright rainbow!

Keep tuned for more Salisbury!