Salisbury Plain
county:
Wiltshire
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
In quitting Andover to go to Salisbury .... You then rise into the open country that very soon becomes a part of that large tract of downs, called Salisbury Plain. You are not in Wiltshire, however, till you are about half the way to Salisbury.
Period - 19th century, early
an open tract in England, which extends from the city of Salisbury 25m E to Winchester, and 25 W to Shaftesbury, and is, in some places from 35 to 40m in breadth. That part of it about the city is a chalky down; the other parts are noted for feeding numerous and large flocks of sheep. In this plain are traces of many Roman and British antiquities. One of these, called Stonehenge, 6m N of Salisbury conists of several large stones placed in a circular form, some upright, others horizontally across them, and of such enormous bulk that it has puzzled many diligent inquirers to account for the bringing and placing of them.
Period - 18th century, early
... at the last of which [Andover, going west], the Downs, or open country begins, which we in general, tho' falsly, call Salisbury-Plain: ...
