Coordinates: 51°03′27″N 1°47′52″W / 51.057635°N 1.797681°W / 51.057635; -1.797681
Harnham is a suburb of the City of Salisbury in Wiltshire, centred about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Salisbury Cathedral and across the River Avon.
Harnham has had some form of human habitation in the area since the Iron Age, a settlement is marked in ordnance survey map underneath several modern houses in Harnwood Road/Old Blandford Road, a straight Roman Road.
Until the 19th century formation of urban and rural districts, the area lay within the Cawdon and Cawsworth Hundred of Wiltshire. Harnham appears in the 1086 Domesday Book.
The road and traffic backlog in the city was improved in 1244 by the building of Ayleswade bridge leading traffic also in from the south through Harnham, thus traffic was diverted from the older route westward through Wilton.
In 1848, Samuel Lewis (publisher) desrcibed the settlement in a topographical dictionary based partly on 1841 census statistics: