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Saint Andrews Church in Laverstock The three roads dedicated to Saint Andrew are in different parts of the Salisbury area. St Andrews in Laverstock St Andrews in Laverstock is named after Saint Andrew’s Church in Church Road, Laverstock, which is nearby. Part of St Andrews is also alongside the village hall, which I think . . . → Read More: St Andrews SP1, St Andrews Close SP2, St Andrews Road SP2 Saint Ann Street is in the centre of Salisbury. It runs from the Cathedral close up towards Saint Martins. Saint Ann Place is just off of St Ann Street. Which Saint Ann was the Salisbury street named after There are two Saint Ann(e)s listed in the Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint Anne, the mother of Mary St. . . . → Read More: St Ann Place and St Ann Street Salisbury The ‘Venerable Bede’ was a 7th century English monk who lived at a monastry in Jarrow. He wrote the ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, finishing in 1731. He became known as ‘venerable’ (meaning both ‘impressive by reason of age’ and ‘profoundly honored’ 1) soon after his death. The Catholic Encyclopedia 2 notes that ‘There . . . → Read More: St Bedes Close SP1 Saint Brendan was a 5th century Irish saint 1, known both for his evangelism within the British Isles and for his seven year Voyage. The Voyage of Saint Brendan may or may not have taken him as far as America. There is a good article on the Fortean Times website that discusses this, concluding that . . . → Read More: St Brendans Close, Salisbury The ‘Rowan’ is a tree in the rose family 1. Rowan Close follows a theme of naming roads after trees in this part of Bemerton Heath – others include Hazel Close, Pinewoods Close and Cedar Close. The rowan is seen as significant in some superstitions. This is believed to go back to a Greek myth . . . → Read More: Rowan Close SP2 Saint Christopher is, famously, the patron saint of travellers. There are a dozen or so significant episodes in Christopher’s life: Birth The wife of a pagan king prayed to the Virgin Mary for a son. Her prayers were granted, and she named the son either Offerus or Reprebus.1 Reprebus, according to Wikipedia, is the derivation . . . → Read More: St Christophers Close, Salisbury St Clair Road is in Britford, which is to the south of Salisbury city centre. My guess is that it would be named after somebody’s surname. There are at least two Saint Clares (1), but Saint Clair spelt with ‘air’ seems to only be a surname, although perhaps derived from one of the saints . . . → Read More: St Clair Road SP2 Saint Clements Way is on Salisbury’s ‘Bishopdown Farm’ estate, which is to the north of the city, off the London Road. It shares the theme of many of the roads on the estate of being named after a saint. Most of these have no local connections at all, at least as far as I . . . → Read More: St Clements Way, Salisbury There were two Saint Davids, and given that St Davids Close is part of the Bishopdown estate, where most of the roads are named after different saints, it could equally be named after either. King David King David was a pivotal figure in Jewish history. He is the David of ‘David and Goliath’, of the . . . → Read More: St Davids Close, Salisbury |
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