publisher is the Avon Advertiser, which is delivered to houses in Salisbury and the surrounding area. In popular culture The two names for the city, Salisbury and Sarum, are humorously alluded to in a 1928 limerick from Punch: The ambiguous pronunciation was also used in the following limerick, which also alludes to 'Hants', the shortened form of Hampshire: Salisbury is the origin of "Melchester" in Thomas Hardy's novels, such as Jude the Obscure (1895). A lively account of the Salisbury markets, as they were in 1842, is contained in Chapter 5 of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. The fictitious Kingsbridge Cathedral in TV miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth (2010), based on a historical novel by the same name by Ken Follett, is modelled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury. The final aerial shot of the series is of Salisbury Cathedral. The 1987 novel Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd describes the history of Salisbury. The novel The Spire by William Golding tells the story of the building of the spire of an unnamed cathedral similar to Salisbury Cathedral. Band Uriah Heep released an album and song called Salisbury in 1971. Progressive rock band Big Big Train wrote two songs in their Folklore album in which the Salisbury Giant appears. The Salisbury Poisonings is a three-part television drama which portrays the 2018 Novichok poisoning crisis, first broadcast on BBC One in June 2020. Climate Salisbury experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) similar to almost all of the United Kingdom. The nearest Met Office weather station to Salisbury is Boscombe Down, about 6 miles to the north of the city centre. In terms of the local climate, Salisbury is among the sunniest of inland areas in the UK, averaging over 1650 hours of sunshine in a typical year. Temperature extremes since 1960 have ranged from in January 1963 to during July 2006. The lowest temperature to be recorded in recent years was during December 2010. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in Salisbury St Osmund's Church, Salisbury Explanatory notes References External links Salisbury at VisitWiltshire Let Me Tell You: Salisbury – a BBC film about life in the city in 1967 at BBC Wiltshire Historic Salisbury photos at BBC Wiltshire Cities in South West England Civil parishes in Wiltshire Towns in Wiltshire