Salisbury - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • Salisbury is the original of "Melchester" in Thomas Hardy's novels, such as Jude the Obscure (1895).
  • The BBC TV adaptation of Archer's Goon was filmed in the city.
  • 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 (2010) based on a historical novel by the same name by Ken Follett is modeled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury. The final aerial shot of the series is of Salisbury Cathedral.
  • The 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 on Salisbury Cathedral.

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