Commemoration of Old Sarum Elections           https://flic.kr/p/2rxqL3i The 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 WAS WILLIAM PITT AFTERWARDS 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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Random pic 17 December 2025	17/12/25 00:24:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Random pic 17 December 2025	17/12/25 12:03:00	Ivonne Holliday
Reply	17/12/25 12:13:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	17/12/25 12:33:00	Ivonne Holliday

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