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== Name == {{hatnote|For the further etymology of ''Salisbury'', see [[Salisbury#Toponymy|Salisbury]].}} The present name seems to be a [[ghost word#More examples|ghost word]] or [[scribal error|corruption]] of the [[medieval Latin]] and [[Old Norman|Norman]] forms of the name Salisbury, such as the Sarisburie that appeared in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086.<ref>{{OpenDomesday|SU1332|salisbury|Salisbury}}</ref> (These were adaptions of the earlier names Searoburh,<ref name=wilt193>{{cite web |website=Wiltshire Community History |title=Salisbury |url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/193 |publisher=Wiltshire Council |access-date=5 November 2021}}</ref> Searobyrig,<ref name=Leeds/> and Searesbyrig,<ref>{{cite book |last=Samuel |first=Lewis |authorlink=Samuel Lewis (publisher)|title=Topographical Dictionary of England |volume=IV |year=1835}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cameron |first=Kenneth |title=English Place-Names |page=35 |publisher=Batsford |year=1988 |isbn=0-7134-5698-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Blake |first1=Norman Francis |display-authors=etal |title=English Historical Linguistics: Studies in development |series=CECTAL Conference Papers Series |volume=3 |publisher=Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language |place=Sheffield, GB |year=1984}}</ref> [[calque]]s of the indigenous [[Common Brittonic|Brittonic]] name with the [[Old English]] [[suffix]]es {{nowrap|''-[[burh]]''}} and {{nowrap|''-[[byrig]]''}}, denoting fortresses or their adjacent settlements.) The longer name was first abbreviated as ''SarΜ '', but, as such a mark was [[scribal abbreviations|used to contract the Latin suffix ''-um'']] (common in placenames), the name was confused and became Sarum sometime around the 13th century. The earliest known use was on the seal of the {{nowrap|St Nicholas}} hospital at [[Salisbury|New Salisbury]], which was in use in 1239. The 14th-century [[Robert Wyvil|Bishop Wyvil]] was the first to describe himself as ''episcopus Sarum''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp93-94 |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 6 |chapter=Salisbury: The word 'Sarum' |pages=93β94 |editor-first=Elizabeth |editor-last=Crittall |date=1962 |via=British History Online |publisher=University of London |access-date=5 November 2021}}</ref> The addition of "old" to the name distinguished it from Sarum or [[New Sarum]], names used in some contexts for the newer settlement.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2022 |title=Course: Old Sarum & New Sarum - A Tale of Two Cities |url=http://salisburymuseum.uk/whats-on/lectures/course-old-sarum-new-sarum-tale-two-cities |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=The Salisbury Museum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=9 December 2009 |title=The City of New Sarum (Churchill Way Pedestrian Underpasses) (Prohibition of Cycling) Order 1972 (Variation) Order 2009 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3347/pdfs/uksi_20093347_en.pdf |access-date=27 July 2024 |website=legislation.gov.uk}}</ref>
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