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Salisbury District
Shown within Wiltshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South West England
Admin. County:	Wiltshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 24th 1,004.13 km�
Admin. HQ:	Salisbury
ONS code:	46UD
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 172nd 115,060 115 / km�
Ethnicity:	98.7% White
Politics
Salisbury District Council http://www.salisbury.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Robert Key, Andrew Murrison

Salisbury is a local government district in Wiltshire, England. It was formed in 1974. Its main town is the city of Salisbury.

There is no authority called Salisbury City Council. The City of Salisbury, only one-sixtieth of the area of the district, is unparished; since 1974 its dignity & privileges have been vested in Charter Trustees.

Places

Alderbury, Amesbury
Bulford
Donhead, Downton, Durrington
Laverstock
Mere
Redlynch
Salisbury, Shrewton
Tilshead, Tisbury
Wilton, Winterslow

Districts of England - South West England
Bath and North East Somerset \| Bournemouth \| Bristol \| Caradon \| Carrick \| Cheltenham \| Christchurch \| Cotswold \| East Devon \| East Dorset \| Exeter \| Forest of Dean \| Gloucester \| Isles of Scilly \| Kennet \| Kerrier \| Mendip \| Mid Devon \| North Cornwall \| North Devon \| North Dorset \| North Somerset \| North Wiltshire \| Penwith \| Plymouth \| Poole \| Purbeck \| Restormel \| Salisbury \| Sedgemoor \| South Gloucestershire \| South Hams \| South Somerset \| Stroud \| Swindon \| Taunton Deane \| Teignbridge \| Tewkesbury \| Torbay \| Torridge \| West Devon \| West Dorset \| West Somerset \| West Wiltshire \| Weymouth and Portland
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Cornwall - Devon - Dorset - Gloucestershire - Somerset - Wiltshire

Categories: UK geography stubs | Wiltshire

Results from FactBites:

Salisbury: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (2016 words)
	In 1990, Salisbury was twinned with Saintes in France and on the 23 April 2006, Xanten in Germany.
	Salisbury railway station serves the city, and is the crossing point between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line making it a regional interchange.
	Salisbury Racecourse is a flat racing course to the south-west of the city.

RPL History Room - Salisbury Historic District (4806 words)
	Salisbury, founded in 1755 as the county seat of Rowan County, was the major center of trade and politics for western North Carolina in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
	Charles Fisher (1789-1849) was born near Salisbury and was elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1818 at the age of twenty-nine.
	This institution was relocated in Salisbury in 1784 and was re-named the Salisbury Academy.

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