The site began as an Iron Age hillfort around 400 BC, about 1,300 feet (400 m) long. The Normans built a motte-and-bailey castle by 1069, a stone curtain wall and the first cathedral, consecrated on April 5, 1092. The article names no architects. Bishop Roger roughly doubled the cathedral's length in the 1110s and began a palace in the 1130s. A 2014 survey suggests the palace stood in the southeast outer bailey and measured about 558 by 213 feet (170 by 65 m).
The Domesday Book was probably presented here in 1086. The new Salisbury Cathedral was founded on April 28, 1220, and the old one was dissolved in 1226. Edward II ordered the castle demolished in 1322, and stone was removed from the cathedral in 1331.
English Heritage runs it, and it is a scheduled monument and Grade I listed.
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