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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Walking from Salisbury centre along the river, then taking The Portway, just SW of Old Sarum is this stone set off the track. I assume it's modern, and once had a plaque on it, but does anyone know why it's here? |
| Posted Comments: JimChampion
(2008-02-22) | Was there ever a battle here? There's a similar stone at Bosworth battlefield in Leicestershire, marking the spot where Richard III lost his crown. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/570575 | JimChampion
(2008-02-22) | I've found the answer now... Richard Fraser writes on the 'this is amesbury' website...
"The ultimate depth of shame was, however, reached when Old Sarum became one of the 'Rotten Boroughs' with zero population that could be bought and sold to enable ambitious politicians to enter Parliament and Prime Minister William Pitt reached his position by this means, as records show that his family sold Old Sarum for £65,000 in 1805. The old elm under which MPs were elected became known as the 'Parliament Tree' and it seems fitting that this tree was blown down in a storm shortly after the Reform Act of 1832 had put a long overdue stop to the Rotten Borough system. Today a plaque now stands where the tree once stood."
Follow this link and scroll down to the bottom for a photo of the stone with plaque intact. |
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