According to Robert Salisbury, " A mayor is the head of locally oriented economic interests.

Shaftesbury (; sometimes known locally as Shaston ) is a town in Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury.

Until the early 1980s, the regiment's administrative headquarters ( RHQ ) was at Brock Barracks, Reading, Berkshire, with a secondary or subsidiary headquarters at Le Marchant Barracks, Devizes, Wiltshire, but by 1982 a single RHQ had been permanently established in the Cathedral Close at Salisbury, Wiltshire, with the DERR regimental museum ,-including the museum collections of the former Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Wiltshire Regiment-established on the ground floor of the same historic building, which had for several centuries been known locally as The Wardrobe, with the building certainly dating back to the 15th Century, but possibly to as early as 1254.

The road is locally known as Natural Bridge Road, Natural Bridge Avenue, and Salisbury Street.

This is known through the writings of John of Salisbury, who is thought to have been a near exact contemporary student of Alan of Lille.

But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain in Salisbury in the northwest corner of the state.

The same shield shown here is found on the tomb effigy of his grandson, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.

Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town.

Hatfield House is the seat of the Cecil family, the Marquesses of Salisbury.

He went on to find a similar penetration of volcanic rock through sedimentary rock near the centre of Edinburgh, at Salisbury Crags, adjoining Arthur's Seat: this is now known as Hutton's Section.

Nevertheless he was also aware of the criticisms, and quoted Lord Salisbury as saying that " aether is little more than a nominative case of the verb to undulate ".

A Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Salisbury Plain has acquired the name Robin Hood's Ball, although had Robin Hood existed it is doubtful that he would have travelled so far south.

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites Ælfric's 10th-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning " precipice ", or stone, thus the stanenges or Stanheng " not far from Salisbury " recorded by 11th-century writers are " supported stones ".

* 1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.

Marsh ’ s estimate is more favourable than Blake's, he portrays Salisbury as a leader who " held back the popular tide for twenty years.

However, the use of vetoes is limited by convention and by the operation of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949: the Lords may not veto the " money bills " or major manifesto promises ( see Salisbury convention ).

That is the doctrine not merely of Peel, of Disraeli, of Salisbury, and Chamberlain ; it is the doctrine of Gladstone ; it is the doctrine of Cobden ; it is the doctrine of Bright ; and it is the doctrine of Campbell Bannerman ... It is the doctrine of all the great Liberal leaders of the past and present ".

** The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.

* c. 2750 BC — 1500 BC — Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, is built.

* October 24 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, is mortally wounded in an unsuccessful assault on Orléans.

Each English cathedral ( with the exception of Salisbury ) has an extraordinary degree of stylistic diversity, when compared with most French, German and Italian cathedrals.

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, housed in the King's House The Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum is housed in the King's House, a Grade I listed building whose history dates back to the 13th century, just opposite the west front of the cathedral.

Salisbury Racecourse with the cathedral in the distance.

Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, and is considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture.

The cathedral is the Mother Church of the Diocese of Salisbury and seat of the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Nick Holtam.

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.

Because the cathedral was built in only 38 years, Salisbury Cathedral has a single consistent architectural style, Early English Gothic.

The Salisbury cathedral clock dating from about AD 1386 is supposedly the oldest working modern clock in the world.

As a gesture of appreciation for John Fisher ( Anglican bishop ) | John Fisher, the Bishop of Salisbury, who commissioned this painting, Constable included the Bishop and his wife in the canvas ( bottom left ). The cathedral is the subject of famous paintings by John Constable.

A number of memorials to the war were added to the cathedral, notably the painting The Passing of Eleanor by Frank Salisbury ( stolen 1973 ) and the reglazing of the main west window, dedicated in 1925.

Examples were in mediaeval paintings in Salisbury cathedral, and others are shown in the illustrations on this page.

Many inaccurately attribute this to Salisbury Cathedral, however they introduced boys and girls on an equal basis, whereas St David's used girls as their ‘ main ’ cathedral choristers.

And in 1811 he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings.

* Salisbury: Salisbury cathedral is very well known, and has the tallest spire in the country.

In 1219, the cathedral was demolished in favour of the new one built near the river and the townspeople moved down to the new city, then called New Salisbury or New Sarum.

The final completion of the cathedral was left to the third bishop of Old Sarum, Roger of Salisbury, chancellor to King Henry I.

To the south is the city of Salisbury, whose 13th and 14th century cathedral is famous for having the tallest spire in the country, and the building was, for many centuries, the tallest building in Britain.

English Gothic architecture flourished from the 12th to the early 16th century, and famous examples include Westminster Abbey, the traditional place of coronation for the British monarch, which also has a long tradition as a venue for royal weddings ); Canterbury Cathedral, one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England ; Salisbury Cathedral, which has the tallest church spire in the UK ; and Winchester Cathedral, which contains the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe.

For example, in the 12th century Old Sarum had been a busy cathedral city but was abandoned when Salisbury was founded nearby ; despite this, Old Sarum retained its two members.