I visited the Ordnance Survey for a talk on their Open Space mapping tool last week.
This is my first attempt at creating a map annotated with what I think are the derivations of the road names.
It’s for a fairly small area of East Harnham. It would be great to create one for the whole of Salisbury – but that may take some time!
If you click on the blue dots, then you should get a short explanation of the road’s name.
Posted in Street Names.
– March 7, 2010
Manor Road runs along the top of Milford Hill, from Kelsey Hill to Wain-a-Long Road.
I’m not sure why it was called Manor Road. It could be a reference to the ‘manor of Milford’, which is how the Milford area was referred to in older documents and maps.
It might be derived from the building that was known as ‘The Grange’ (and then, strangely, ‘Concordes’), but this would seem unlikely because the Grange was on the other side of Saint Mark’s Roundabout.
It could be that Manor Road is named after Milford Manor, but it seems to be too far away from the building, which is at the bottom of Shady Bower.
There are a number of buildings at the northern end of Manor Road which might be grand enough to be called ‘The Manor’ but I don’t know – I’ll have a look next time I’m up there.
Visiting Salisbury?
For accommodation, see the Hotels in Salisbury page.
Posted in Street Names.
– March 8, 2010
I quite like this view of the back of Saint Paul’s Church, taken from the Spire View roundabout. It’s not a great photo, but it’s an interesting view.
I wrote about how Saint Paul’s church was built to replace the older Saint Clement’s church, which gives “Churchfields” its name on my post on St Clements Way
Posted in Photos.
– March 3, 2010
Maplecroft is on the ‘Ridings Mead’ estate, to the south of the city centre. Maple Crescent is in the Fugglestone area on the east of Wilton.
Maples come in many different varieties. The sugar maple is tapped to make maple syrup.
The maple leaf is featured in the flag of Canada.
It has been a symbol of Canada since the 1830s (1), but the flag was not officially adopted until 1965, when it replaced the Union Jack (2)
(3)
Visiting Salisbury?
For accommodation, see the Hotels in Salisbury page.
Posted in Street Names.
– March 1, 2010
There have been a series of posters at the railway stations which have been a bit odd, especially one promoting the new ticket machines saying something like ‘Dont fear machines – except for the terminator’. Anyhow, I quite like this one, advertising daytrips to Stonehenge.
If you came to this page looking for how to get to Stonehenge then it might be worth looking at my page on getting from Salisbury to Stonehenge
Posted in Photos.
– February 26, 2010
