Random pic 17 December 2025
Commemoration of Old Sarum Elections https://flic.kr/p/2rxqL3iThe inscription:
THIS STONE ERECTED By THE CORPORATION OF NEW SARUM.
COMMEMORATES THAT NEAR THIS SPOT
BENEATH THE SPREADING BRANCHES OF AN ELM TREE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF OLD SARUM
WERE IN FORMER TIMES ELECTED MOST NOTABLE OF WHOM WASWILLIAM PITTAFTERWARDS EARL OF CHATHAM
"CLARUM ET VENERABILE NOMEN GENTIBUS ET MULTUM NOSTRAE QUOD PRODERAT URB" WHO FORGED THOSE LINKS OF EMPIRE WHICH NOW BIND OUR FELLOW CITIZENS BEYOND THE SEAS IN AFFECTION TO THE MOTHER COUNTRY.WHEREFORE LET THIS PLACE BE FOR EVER ENSHRINED IN THE HEARTS OF OUR COUNTRYMEN.THS SITE WAS RESTORED, AND A NEW ELM TREE PLANTED, BY SALISBURY M.P. ROBERT KEY, ON 7TH JUNE 2000 FOLLOWING
COLLABORATION BETWEEN ENGLISH HERITAGE, ORDNANCE SURVEY,
SALISBURY DISTRICT COUNCIL AND WILTSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST.
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