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Pennyfarthing Street is in Salisbury, right in the city’s centre. Pennyfarthing Street – named after the bicycle? The name ‘Pennyfarthing Street’ has nothing to do with the bicycles. Pennyfarthing Street had gained its name by 1633 1, whereas the Pennyfarthing bicycle wasn’t invented until 1871 2 So why is this road called Pennyfarthing Street? There . . . → Read More: Pennyfarthing Street, Salisbury Pennys Lane, Wilton Pennys Lane in Wilton is probably named after somebody with the surname ‘Penny’. It’s a reasonable common name in the Salisbury area, and I think there is, or was, a large Penny family in the Wilton and Dinton area. Derivation of the surname ‘Penny’ My belief has always been that the surname . . . → Read More: Pennys Lane, Wilton Penruddock Close on the west side of Salisbury is named after the Penruddock family, who were based in Compton Chamberlayne. There is a pub called the ‘Penruddocke Arms’ at Baverstock, which is nearby. The most famous of the Penruddocks is probably John Penruddock. John Penruddock John Penruddock was a royalist colonel in the English Civil . . . → Read More: Penruddock Close, Salisbury Petersfinger Road runs from Milford to the Southampton Road, on the west side of Salisbury. var osMap, screenOverlay, mapOV, postcodeService; var pos; // Variables for markers var size,offset,infoWindowAnchor,icon,content,popUpSize; function initmapbuilder() { // Creating the Openspace map and the postcode service osMap = new OpenSpace.Map(‘map’); postcodeService = new OpenSpace.Postcode(); // Adding the map overview mapOV = . . . → Read More: Petersfinger Road, MilfordPhilip Court in Salisbury is best known as being the name and location of an old people’s sheltered accommodation scheme. 1 Philip Road is to the north of Wilton. I’m afraid I’m can’t see any likely derivation for either name. FootnotesSalisbury District Council | Philip Court, Coronation Road [↩] Phillips Lane is at least part of the road that links the A345 just beyond Old Sarum to the ‘Little Durnford road’, just north of Stratford-sub-Castle. It is presumably named after a local landowner. Piggy Lane in Laverstock is referred to in a Salisbury District Council document on the development of Duck Lane 1 and in a list of public rights of way created by the Countryside Access Forum 2. The Countryside Access Forum identifies it as being: Piggy Lane, starting north east end of Laverstock and Ford 27 . . . → Read More: Piggy Lane, Milford Pilgrims Mead is in the Bishopdown area to the north of Salisbury. The inspiration for the name ‘Pilgrims Mead’ is relatively clear – many of the roads in the ‘Bishopdown Farm’ estate are named after individual saints (for example St Thomas Way or St Clements Way) or after some other religious concepts (e.g. Apostle Way, . . . → Read More: Pilgrims Mead, Salisbury Pinewood Close and Pinewood Way both on the Bemerton Heath Estate, which is in north west Salisbury. These are part of a small group of roads which are named after trees – the others being Cedar Close, Hazel Close and Rowan Close. Polden Road, on the South East side of Salisbury, near Tollgate Road, is probably named after the Polden Hills, which are in Somerset. The Polden Hills are a ridge which running across the Somerset Levels 1. The Polden Hills have Street and Glastonbury at one end and Puriton, near Bridgewater at the other. The A39 . . . → Read More: Polden Road, Salisbury |
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