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According to ‘A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6′1 Scots Lane probably takes its name from John Scocche who lived near the boundary of St. Thomas and St. Edmund in 1269″ Footnotes‘Salisbury – St Edmund’s parish‘, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 83-85. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41786. Date accessed: 11 . . . → Read More: Scots Lane SP1 Seagrim Road was perhaps named after William Seagrim, or his family, who endowed Wilton Free School with £25 in 1840. The school was closed in 1923. 1 Footnotes‘Wilton – Schools and charities | British History Online‘, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 33-36. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41772. Date accessed: 11 July 2008. . . . → Read More: Seagrim Road SP2 I think this is called Senior Drive because it is built on the site of Newbridge Old People’s Hospital.
Seth Ward Seth Ward was Bishop of Salisbury from 1667 to 1689. It’s probably fair to say that he was one of our most impressive Bishops. He was born in Buntingford in Hertfordshire, where there are the Bishop Seth Wards’s almshouses 1. Prior to becoming Salisbury’s Bishop he was the Bishop of Exeter, and before . . . → Read More: Seth Ward Drive SP1 Bower is an interesting word. Chambers dictionary 1 says that a bower is “a place in a garden, etc which is enclosed and shaded from the sun by plants and trees” or ‘a lady’s private room or boudoir’. Other sources particularly refer to a garden structure.2 I would have said, before looking it . . . → Read More: Shady Bower SP1, Shady Bower Close SP1 Shaftesbury Road is presumably named after the town of Shaftesbury, which is 15 miles or so to the West. Shaftesbury is famous for ‘Gold Hill’ – the very steep, cobbled but picturesque hill that was used in an advert for ‘Hovis’ a few years ago. Shaftesbury is a good place to go for a couple . . . → Read More: Shaftesbury Road SP2 The derivation of the name of ‘Shakespeare Road’ is that it is in the village of Stratford-sub-Castle and William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Salisbury Stratford is actually on the Avon (although a different Avon), but was named instead in reference to the fact that it is physically below (‘sub‘) Old Sarum (the ‘castle‘). ‘Sheen’ means shine or gloss, coming from the Old English ‘sciene‘ meaning beautiful. I think it’s also used to mean river or sea, as in Johnny Cash’s “I Hung my head”1 I set off running To wake from the dream My brother’s rifle Went into the sheen Update: ‘I Hung My Head’ was, . . . → Read More: Sheen Close SP2 Shakespeare and Shelley Shelley Road is probably named after the poet Percy Shelley. Although there are no other roads named after poets other than Shakespeare represented in this area, all the other roads are themed around Shakespeare . It doesn’t seem too great a jump from Shakespeare to another famous English poet, Shelley. England in . . . → Read More: Shelley Drive SP1 I’m unsure what the derivation of ‘Shortlands’ is. According to Wikipedia1, the London/Kent Shortlands “became known as Shortlands around 1800, after the fields which at this point of the Ravensbourne river ran at right angles up the slopes either side.” I know the Shortlands area, but I’m afraid I still don’t really understand this . . . → Read More: Shortlands SP2 |
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