a town in Wiltshire, southern England, on the River Avon. It is famous for its cathedral, which has the highest spire (= pointed tower) in Britain, and for the ancient remains at Old Sarum, the original place where the town was built, to the north of the present town. Salisbury and its cathedral appear in many of the paintings of John Constable. 索爾茲伯裏(英格蘭南部威爾特郡埃文河畔的城鎮。以有着英國最高尖塔的索爾茲伯裏大教堂和老塞勒姆的古代遺迹而聞名。老塞勒姆是最初建城的地方,位於今城鎮以北。索爾茲伯裏及其大教堂出現在約翰 · 康斯太布爾的許多畫作中)