Plan based on an earlier (and highly fanciful) <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Sarum.png" title="File:Old Sarum.png">woodcut</a>. Oriented with West at the top of the page and North on the right.<br><u>Text</u><div>
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<p>This antient and once beautiful City, appears perfectly round, form'd on an elegant Plan, &amp; when its Prosperity, together with the Lofty Castle, (rising as it were out of the middle of it,) must undoubtedly have afforded a Very grand &amp; formidable Appearance, the Whole being built on a large high Hill, that Commands a beautiful and extensive prospect, which with immense Labour was reduced to the uniform circular Figure in which we now see it. its Space is near 2000 feet Diameter surrounded with a Fosse or Ditch of great depth, and two Ramparts, the Inner and the Outer; on the Inner, which is much higher then the Outer, stood a Wall near 12 feet thick at its basis, made with Flint &amp; Chalk strongly cemented together, and cased with hewn Stone-work, on which was a Parapet with Battlements quite round; of this Wall there are still large Remains to be seen on the North-west Side: At a considerable Distance, &amp; in the Center of the whole Circumference on the summit of the Hill surrounded with a very deep Intrenchment and a high Rampart, stood the Citadel or Castle, &amp; in the Area under it, which is a wide space between the inner &amp; outer Ramparts afore-mention'd, stood the City, divided into equal parts, North and South, near the middle of each Division was a Gate which were the two grand Enterances, directly opposite, had each a Tower over, and a Mole of great Strength before them. Besides these there were ten other Towers at equal Distances, quite round the City, and opposite them, in a strait Line with the Castle, were built the Principal Streets of the City, intersected in the Middle with one grand circular Street that went quite round. In the Angle to the north-west, stood the Cathedral, and Episcopal Palace and also the Houses of the Clergy, who held Benefices under the Church.<br><br>The Area on which the City stood surrounded with a deep Intrenchment, high Rampart, with Walls and Towers afore-mentioned was also for its greater Strength and Security, divided into nearly equal
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<p>Parts by Intrenchments, and Ramparts, thrown up, by which means, if one Part was taken, the other was still defensible, &amp; if the Whole of the Out-works were in the Hands of an Enemy, the Besieged had the Castle to retire into, whose Walls were at that time of day, impregnable, as appears by the large Fragments, and Foundations that are left. There seems to have been but one grand Entrance into the Castle, which was on the East, through a narrow Gate-way of immense Strength that had a Double winding Stair-case, which led to the Top of it. There appears to have been five Wells, all long since fill'd up, four in the City, and one in the Castle, designed Chiefly to supply the Garrison and Inhabitants in time of War, or in case of a Siege; for they must have been so extremely deep, especialy that in the Castle, as to render it more laborious to draw the Water such a Depth, then to fetch it from the neighbouring River, about half a Mile distant.<br><br>Camden in his History, speaking of this City &amp; Castle says "In the Itinerary of Antoninus, it is call'd Sorbiodunum:– Whether Julius Cæsar pushed his conquests thus far, is controverted, but that it was frequented by the Roman emperors, is most certain, by the coins of Constans, Magnentius, Constantine, &amp; Crispus, often found there. Kenrick the Saxon, after he had overcome the Britons (in 553) was the first that got possession of this place. He often resided in it, &amp; in his posterity it remained, being the West Saxon Kings, till Egbert brough the whole heptarchy under his power.– Edgar, his distant Successor, called a parliament, or great council here (in 960) in which were enacted several laws, for the government of church &amp; state.– In 1003, King Swain took this City, &amp; having pillaged and burnt part of it, return'd to his ships with great wealth.– In Doomsday Book this City gelded for fifty hides, and of the third penny the King had twenty shillings by weight, and of the increase sixty pound by tale; which shews, that our ancestors, as well as the Romans, both weighed &amp; told their money."<br><br>Salisbury Printed, &amp; Sold at the Printing Office 1761
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<p>1 Mary-Street<br>2 Peters-Lane<br>3 Edm<sup><small>d</small></sup>-Street<br>4 Nich<sup><small>s</small></sup>-Street<br>5 Marpal-Str<sup><small>t</small></sup><br>6 Nathan-Str<sup><small>t</small></sup><br>7 Charam-Str<sup><small>t</small></sup><br>8 Fish-Row<br>9 Gardner's-Row<br>10 Hurd-Street<br>11 Bury-Street<br>12 Bakers-Row<br>13 Queen-Street<br>14 High-Church-Lane<br>15 Queengate-Row<br>16 Merton-Street
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<p>17 Port-Lane<br>18 Bearing-Street<br>19 Peak-Lane<br>20 Butter-Street<br>21 Groom-Lane<br>22 Marcel-Walk<br>23 Silver Street<br>24 Kingsbury Street<br><small>aaa</small> Palaces for the Clergy<br><small>e</small> Meadows
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</td></tr></tbody></table></div><u>References to the Plan.</u><br>A Edmund-Street – Tower<br>B Nicholas-Street – Tower<br>C Cross-Bank – Tower<br>D Bury-Street – Tower<br>E Queen-Street – Tower<br>F Port-Lane – Tower<br>G Peak-Lane – Tower<br>H Cross-Bank – Tower<br>I Groom-Lane – Tower<br>K Silver-Street – Tower
F. Merryweather
<i>An Exact Plan and Section of Old Sarum: also, The</i> East <i>View of that antient City as it then stood, (before its Reduction) in 553</i> (43 × 51.4 cm), printed at Salisbury by the 'Printing Office'.