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Sarum
Five families inhabit the region around Salisbury across ten thousand years, from hunter-gatherer communities and the building of Stonehenge to the modern city. Their descendants live through Roman occupation, Saxon settlement, Norman rule, medieval church power, Tudor religious change, civil war and industrialisation. The long perspective shows how landscape, inheritance and recurring family rivalries shape one place over successive eras.
The long chronology makes landscape the novel’s most persistent character. Roads, fields, religious sites and patterns of settlement are repeatedly reused by communities that understand them differently from their predecessors. Family continuities and reversals allow political conquest, economic change and religious reform to be experienced as transformations of one local environment across thousands of years.
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