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Salisbury / Reino Unido

Salisbury es una ciudad en Wiltshire, Inglaterra. La ciudad es famosa por su espléndida catedral gótica que guarda la mejor copia de la Carta Magna. La ciudad se encuentra en la confluencia de cinco ríos: el Nadder, el Ebble, el Wylye y el Bourne que son afluentes del quinto río Avon que desemboca al canal de la Mancha en Christchurch, Dorset. En las llanuras cercanas a esta ciudad se encuentra el famoso monumento de Stonehenge.

Mompesson House

Salisbury / Reino Unido

Mompesson House is an 18th-century house located in the Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The house is Grade I listed. and has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1975.

The Salisbury Museum

Salisbury / Reino Unido

The Salisbury Museum is a museum in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It houses one of the best collections relating to Stonehenge and local archaeology.The museum is housed in The King's House, a Grade I listed building, where King James I of England was entertained in 1610 and 1613. Set in the surroundings of the Cathedral Close, the museum faces the west front of Salisbury Cathedral. Previously at 40-42 St Ann Street, where it had been founded in 1860 by Dr Richard Fowler, FRS, it transferred to its current site in 1981.The original three-storey building, with mullioned and transomed windows, ornate plaster ceilings and a fine oak-balustraded staircase, houses the main temporary exhibition gallery with the ceramics gallery above. The arms of James I's eldest son, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, can be seen in a window in the Wedgwood gallery upstairs. The director of the museum is Adrian Green.

Salisbury Guildhall

Salisbury / Reino Unido

Salisbury Guildhall is an 18th-century municipal building in the Market Place, Salisbury, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is the meeting place of the Salisbury City Council.

John Creasey

Salisbury / Reino Unido

John Creasey MBE was an English crime writer, also writing romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters who are now famous, such as The Toff , Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron , Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon's Day . The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.