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Old Meadows Walk is in Harnham, to the south of Salisbury. I would guess that ‘Old Meadows’ is a reference to the ‘water meadows’ between Salisbury and Harnham. The Water Meadows are the fields which are either side of ‘Town Path’ – the path which runs from Elizabeth Gardens to the Old Mill at Harnham. . . . → Read More: Old Meadows Walk, Harnham Old Sarum is the hill fort to the north of Salisbury. The Business Park is just north of that. There’s a map below. There is some detail on the derivation of the words ‘Sarum’ and ‘Salisbury’ on the page for Salisbury Road and Sarum Close, but ‘Sarum’ seems to be a medieval attempt to render . . . → Read More: Old Sarum Business Park, Salisbury The Old Shaftesbury Drove is more of a path than a road 1. It runs most of the way from Salisbury to the town of Shaftesbury, which is about 20 miles away, by road 2. A ‘drove’, in this context, is a path or track used by farmers to move livestock from one place to . . . → Read More: Old Shaftesbury Drove, Harnham Old Street is in Harnham, to the south of Salisbury, fairly close to the Rose and Crown Hotel. I don’t know why it’s called Old Street – it’s in the older part of Harnham, but I don’t know that it’s ‘old’ relative to the streets around it. Olivier Close is on Bemerton Heath, to the North East of Salisbury. Olivier Road is in Wilton. My guess would be that both are related to the Olivier family, some of whom lived in Wilton. This is obviously more clear for the address in Wilton than it is for the one in Salisbury. Edith Olivier . . . → Read More: Olivier Road, Wilton and Olivier Close, Salisbury An Orchard is defined as an intentional planting of trees 1. The second syllable of the word seems to come from an Old English word geard which is the linguistic root of both ‘yard’ and ‘garden’ Online Etymology Dictionary – Orchard. The first syllable could be derived from either an Old English word wort meaning . . . → Read More: Orchard Place and Orchard Road, Salisbury
A thatched owl in Harnham, Salisbury Owlswood is on the Bishops Mead estate to the south of Salisbury. The owls are, of course, particularly distinctive birds of prey. There are 200 species of owl, scattered through most of the world. 1 In today’s Anglo-American culture, I think it’s fair to say that the owl now . . . → Read More: Owlswood, Salisbury Ox Row, in the centre of Salisbury, would once have been part of the market place. The Victoria County History says that Oatmeal Row, Ox Row, Butcher Row, and Fish Row show every sign of being encroachments of permanent shops built to replace the temporary stalls of earlier times.1 . Perhaps the word ‘row’ in . . . → Read More: Ox Row, Salisbury Paddock Way is on a small estate in Laverstock, a village to the East of Salisbury. The names of the roads on the estate have a rural theme – the other roads are Silverwood Drive, Westfield Close, and Woodland Way. The word ‘paddock’ usually means: A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.1 . . . → Read More: Paddock Way, Laverstock Palmer Road is just off of Devizes Road, to the north west of Salisbury. I would guess that ‘Palmer’ would be the surname of somebody connected with the development of the road – I don’t recall anyone prominent in Salisbury politics called Palmer. If you know the derivation, please leave me a comment. Derivation of . . . → Read More: Palmer Road, Salisbury |
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