1. Borough in Pennsylvania (USA); zip code 15558.
2. City in Maryland (USA); zip code 21801.
3. City in Missouri (USA); zip code 65281.
4. City in North Carolina (USA).
5. Unincorporated community in Massachusetts (USA).
6. Unincorporated community in New York (USA).
(UK) City and market town in Wiltshire, S England, 135 km/84 mi SW of London; est) 40,000. Salisbury is an agricultural center, and industries include brewing and carpet manufacture (in nearby Wilton). The cathedral of St Mary, built 1220–66, is an example of Early English architecture; its decorated spire 123 m/404 ft is the highest in England; its clock (1386) is one of the oldest still working. The cathedral library contains one of only four copies of the Magna Carta.
Another name for the modern city of Salisbury is New Sarum, Sarum being a medieval Latin corruption of the ancient Roman name Sorbiodonum. Old Sarum, site of an Iron Age fort, cathedral, and town on a 90-m/300-ft hill to the N, was abandoned 1220. Old Sarum was the most famous of the “rotten boroughs” prior to the 1832 Reform Act.(Zimbabwe) Former name (to 1980) of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.