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The most prominent member of the Swayne family was William Swayne who was a 15th century entrepreneur. He was a patron of the Tailor’s Guild, and was responsible for much of the re-building of St Thomas’ Church, where there is an inscription to pray for his soul and that of his wife 1 Also within . . . → Read More: Swaynes Close SP1 , Swayne Road SP2 Swiftdown, like several or the other road names on the Riding’s Mead estate, is an invented word made by joining the name of a bird with the name of a geographical feature. The swift is a migratory bird which stays in England from April to August, then spends the winter in Africa. 1 The word . . . → Read More: Swiftdown SP2 The sycamore tree is a member of the maple family. Its most distinctive feature, at least to somebody as ignorant of botany as I am, is the ‘helicopter’ seed. It is not native to Britain and some conservationists try to remove it 1 The word sycamore is actually derived from a different tree altogether . . . → Read More: Sycamore Drive SP1 ‘Syringa’ is the Latin name for the lilac shrub 1. The word is derived from the name of a Greek nymph, Syrinx, who was transformed into a hollow water reed 2. The lilac also has hollow stems, hence the name. The hollow stem is also the derivation of the word ‘syringe’ 3 FootnotesSyringa – . . . → Read More: Syringa Court SP2 William Talbot was bishop of Salisbury from 1715 to 1722. Telford Road is on the Churchfields industrial estate, and like most of the roads on the estate it is named after an engineer, in this case Thomas Telford, who was what we would now call a ‘civil engineer’, building canals, roads and bridges. The new town of Telford was named after Thomas Telford. According to Wikipedia 1, In some cities in the United States (most notably in Manhattan, New York City), there is a convention that “avenues” run in a north-south direction, while “streets” run in an east-west direction, or vice versa. Both of the roads known as just ‘The Avenue’ in Salisbury run broadly . . . → Read More: The Avenue Salisbury SP1 An avenue is a road which has trees on either side. It typically brings to mind (at least, it typically brings to my mind) a city street that has been decoratively planted with trees at regular intervals, but ‘The Avenue’ near Wilton is mainly rural. It leads from the crossroads with Devizes Road and ‘Snakey . . . → Read More: The Avenue Wilton SP2 The beech tree is particularly common in Southern England and grows well on chalky soil1, so there are many in the Salisbury area. FootnotesBeech [↩] Brambles are the prickly bushes on which blackberries and other fruits grow. Bramble is also a surname, thought to be derived either from the bush or from Bramhall 1 or from the place name ‘Bramhall’. There are two ‘Bramhalls’ – one in Greater Manchester and one in the Sheffield area. I thought this . . . → Read More: The Brambles SP1 |
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