During the 1920 restoration William Hawley, who had excavated nearby Old Sarum, excavated the base of six stones and the outer ditch.

He made further purchases and became one of the dominant political figures in the West Country controlling seats such as the rotten borough of Old Sarum.

His older brother Thomas was returned at the general election of 1734 for two separate seats Okehampton and Old Sarum and chose to sit for Okehampton, passing the vacant seat to William.

Accordingly, in February 1735, William Pitt entered parliament as member Old Sarum.

A later thrust by the West Saxons up the Avon towards Old Sarum in 519 appears to have been checked by the Britons at Charford.

* Cynric, king of Wessex, captures the fort at Old Sarum.

The most famous rotten borough was Old Sarum, which had 13 burgage plots that could be used to " manufacture " electors if necessary — usually around half a dozen was thought sufficient.

Constituency boundaries were out of date, and the so-called " rotten boroughs " had a hugely disproportionate influence on the membership of the Parliament of the United Kingdom compared to the size of their populations: Old Sarum in Wiltshire, with one voter, elected two MPs, as did Dunwich in Suffolk, which by the early 19th century had almost completely disappeared into the sea.

It has also been called New Sarum 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.

There is evidence of Neolithic settlement on the hilltop of Old Sarum, which became a hill fort in the Iron Age.

However, deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum led to the decision to re-site the cathedral elsewhere.

Some stones which make up the cathedral came from Old Sarum, others from the Chilmark Quarries from where they were most likely moved to the cathedral building site by ox-cart.

The cathedral is built on a gravel bed with unusually shallow foundations of upon wooden faggots: the site is supposed to have been selected by shooting an arrow from Old Sarum, although this can only be legend as the distance is over.

The original site of the city at Old Sarum fell into disuse.

Old Sarum was a rotten borough that was abolished in 1832 as at the time, one MP represented three households.

In 1219 Richard Poore, the then Bishop of Sarum, decided to establish a new town and cathedral on an estate in his possession ( confusingly known as Veteres Sarisberias — Old Salisburys ) in the valley, on the banks of the River Avon.

There are civil airfields at Old Sarum ( where the experimental aircraft the Edgley Optica was developed and tested ) and at Thruxton near Andover.

The city itself, Old Sarum and the original cathedral also attract visitors.

As a response to deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum, the decision was taken to resite the cathedral and the bishopric was moved to its present place in Salisbury.

Legend has it that the Bishop of Old Sarum shot an arrow in the direction he would build the cathedral ; the arrow hit a deer and the deer finally died in the place where Salisbury Cathedral is now.

In England the grounds used are The Oval ( since 1880 ), Old Trafford ( 1884 ), Lord's ( 1884 ), Trent Bridge ( 1899 ), Headingley ( 1899 ) and Edgbaston ( 1902 ).

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England.

The glossing was probably brought to England as Old French crimne ( 12th century form of Modern French crime ), from Latin crimen ( in the genitive case: criminis ).

Old East Norse was once widely spoken in the northeast counties of England.

Deism flourished in England between 1690 and 1740, at which time Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), also called " The Deist's Bible ", gained much attention.

During this time, England played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers this had largely settled down to having Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium as the primary venue, with Newcastle United's St. James ' Park used on occasions where Old Trafford was unavailable.

Enid Blyton's former house " Old Thatch " near Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England

In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner.

The novel is pessimistic ; industrialism and capitalism have killed the best of Old England, and there were great, new external threats.

The Anglo-Saxons warred with British successor states in Wales, Cornwall, and the Hen Ogledd ( Old North ; the Brythonic-speaking parts of northern England and southern Scotland ), as well as with each other.

Heimdallr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; in the poetry of skalds ; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in England.

A lead spindle whorl bearing an Old Norse Younger Futhark inscription that mentions Heimdallr was discovered in Saltfleetby, England on September 1, 2010.

It was during the Viking invasions of the Anglo-Saxon period that Old English was influenced by contact with Norse, a group of North Germanic dialects spoken by the Vikings, who came to control a large region in the North of England known as the Danelaw.

* 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia ( Old Style ).

* 1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England, United Kingdom.

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales at the Old Bailey

Before his first visit to England in 1834, the labours of Hugh Miller and other geologists brought to light the remarkable fish of the Old Red Sandstone of the northeast of Scotland.

The West Indian cricket team toured England in 1933, and, in the second Test at Old Trafford, Jackie Grant, their captain, decided to try bodyline.

The name has its origins in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933.

Old English literature ( or Anglo-Saxon literature ) encompasses literature written in Old English ( also called Anglo-Saxon ) in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period from the 7th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066.