The area around Old Sarum and Lower Bourne Valley sits on chalk downland a few miles north of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. It juxtaposes the exposed hilltop earthworks of Old Sarum - an Iron Age hillfort later reused by the Romans and Normans - with the low-lying, wetter meadows of the Bourne valley carved by the River Bourne, where chalk-stream habitats and floodplain grassland still survive in fragments and local reserves.
Historically the hill is notable as the site of an early cathedral later moved to Salisbury Cathedral and as a famously tiny parliamentary borough before the reforms of the 19th century; today the neighbourhood combines visitor tourism to the archaeology with modern housing, commuter households and small local services. Conservation groups, walkers and school parties are common, drawn to both the archaeological remains and the wildlife of places such as the Bourne Valley Nature Reserve.
Postcode districts covering Old Sarum & Lower Bourne Valley
Most populated places nearby
- Southampton 20.4 miles
- Eastleigh 20.6 miles
- Eastleigh Town 20 miles
- Winchester 19.2 miles
- Salisbury 3.1 miles
- Andover 13.8 miles
- Trowbridge 24.4 miles
- Totton 17 miles
- Totton and Eling 17.4 miles
- New Milton 24.8 miles
- Hythe and Dibden 22.5 miles
- Hythe and Dibden Purlieu 22.8 miles
Neighbouring places
- Winterbourne Dauntsey and Winterbourne Earls Built-up area 0.2 miles
- Winterbourne Parish 0.3 miles
- Winterbourne Gunner Built-up area 0.7 miles
- Old Sarum Built-up area 1.3 miles
- Gomeldon Built-up area 1.5 miles
- Laverstock Parish 1.8 miles
- Porton Built-up area 1.8 miles
- Durnford Parish 2.4 miles
- Firsdown Built-up area 2.5 miles
- Salisbury St. Francis & Stratford Ward 2.5 miles
- Salisbury Milford Ward 2.6 miles
- Idmiston Built-up area 2.9 miles
Example postcodes in Old Sarum & Lower Bourne Valley
SP4 6RU, SP4 6HU, SP4 6GE, SP4 6RJ, SP4 6SH, SP4 6LT, SP4 6JR, SP4 6LG, SP4 6EP … See all
Transport links
- Southampton Airport 20.6 miles
- Bournemouth Airport 23.1 miles
- Salisbury Station 3.4 miles
- Dean Railway Station 7 miles
- Salisbury Bus Station 3.1 miles
Hotels near Old Sarum & Lower Bourne Valley Ad
- The Merchant's House 4 3.2 miles
- The Stones Hotel 4 1.8 miles
- The Chapter House 3.4 miles
- The Legacy Rose and Crown Hotel 4 3.9 miles
- Premier Inn Salisbury 3 1.5 miles
- Premier Inn Salisbury North Bishopdown 3 1.5 miles
- The Old Railway Hotel 3 1.8 miles
- The Pembroke Arms 4.9 miles
- Milford Hall Salisbury 4 2.9 miles
- Holiday Inn Salisbury-Stonehenge 4 4.6 miles
Schools in Old Sarum & Lower Bourne Valley
- Gomeldon Primary School Primary
- Old Sarum Primary School Primary
- Winterbourne Earls C of E Primary School Primary
Local points of interest
- Amesbury Abbey Historic site 4.5 miles
- Durrington Walls Archaeological site 5.2 miles
- Stonehenge Archaeological site 5.7 miles
- Salisbury Racecourse Recreation 5.7 miles
- Norman Court Estate 6.7 miles
- Ramridge House Estate 11.6 miles
- Western Downs Hill 13 miles
- Embley House Estate 13.8 miles
- Broadlands Country house 14.2 miles
- Paultons Park Estate 15.1 miles
- Fonthill Abbey Estate 15.5 miles
- Castle Malwood Estate 15.7 miles