Editing Salisbury (section)

==In popular culture==
The two names for the city, ''Salisbury'' and ''Sarum'', are humorously alluded to in a 1928 [[Limerick (poetry)|limerick]] from ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'':

{{blockquote|<poem>
::There was an old Sultan of Salisbury
::Who wanted some wives for his {{define|[[harem|halisbury]]|harem}},
::So he had them sent down
::By a fast train from town,
::For he thought that his [[car|motor]] would {{define|scalisbury|scare 'em}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reed |first=Langford |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHA4AAAAIAAJ |title=Mr. Punch's Limerick Book |date=1934 |publisher=R. Cobden–Sanderson Ltd |location=London |page=65 |chapter=Irreverent Radios |access-date=14 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424135004/https://books.google.com/books?id=oHA4AAAAIAAJ |archive-date=24 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
</poem>}}

The ambiguous pronunciation was also used in the following limerick, which also alludes to 'Hants', the shortened form of Hampshire:

{{blockquote|<poem>
::There was a young curate of Salisbury,
::Whose manners were quite Halisbury-Scalisbury.
::He wandered round Hampshire,
::Without any pampshire,
::Till the Vicar compelled him to Walisbury.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baring-Gould |first=W S |title=The Lure of the Limerick |date=1970 |publisher=Panther |location=London |page=173}}</ref>
</poem>}}

*Salisbury is the origin of [[Thomas Hardy's Wessex|"Melchester"]] in [[Thomas Hardy]]'s novels, such as ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' (1895).
*A lively account of the Salisbury markets, as they were in 1842, is contained in Chapter 5 of ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]].
*The fictitious Kingsbridge Cathedral in TV miniseries, ''[[The Pillars of the Earth (TV miniseries)|The Pillars of the Earth]]'' (2010), based on a historical novel by the same name by [[Ken Follett]], is modelled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury. The final aerial shot of the series is of [[Salisbury Cathedral]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 May 2010 |title=Ken Follett on the Cathedrals in The Pillars of the Earth |url=http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Ken-Follett-on-the-Cathedrals-in-The-Pillars-of-the-Earth |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121215923/http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Ken-Follett-on-the-Cathedrals-in-The-Pillars-of-the-Earth |archive-date=21 January 2011 |access-date=8 March 2011 |publisher=[[Oprah Winfrey|Oprah]].com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hale |first=Mike |date=22 July 2010 |title=Pillars of the Earth |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/arts/television/23pillars.html |url-status=live |access-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204011724/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/arts/television/23pillars.html |archive-date=4 February 2017}}</ref>
*[[Kate Bush]] cites the city on the first song of her 1982 album ''[[The Dreaming (album)|The Dreaming]]''.
*The 1987 novel ''[[Sarum (novel)|Sarum]]'' by [[Edward Rutherfurd]] describes the history of Salisbury.
*The novel ''[[The Spire]]'' by [[William Golding]] tells the story of the building of the spire of an unnamed cathedral similar to Salisbury Cathedral.
*Band [[Uriah Heep (band)|Uriah Heep]] released an album and song called ''[[Salisbury (album)|Salisbury]]'' in 1971.
*Progressive rock band [[Big Big Train]] wrote two songs in their ''Folklore'' album in which the Salisbury Giant<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC – A History of the World – Object : The Salisbury Giant |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/go8a1jrkR_aiiIfKon1LNA |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123083903/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/go8a1jrkR_aiiIfKon1LNA |archive-date=23 January 2019 |access-date=29 April 2018 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> appears.
*''[[The Salisbury Poisonings]]'' is a three-part television drama which portrays the 2018 [[Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal|Novichok poisoning crisis]], first broadcast on [[BBC One]] in June 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Steven McIntosh |date=14 June 2020 |title=The Salisbury Poisonings: TV drama revisits Novichok attack 'horror' |publisher=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52962640 |access-date=30 June 2020}}</ref>