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.
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.
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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