The North Walk is one of the roads within Salisbury Cathedral’s Close. Both North Street in Wilton and North Street in Salisbury are part of small groups of roads which ‘box the compass’ to some extent. So in Salisbury, North Street meets West Street, East Street and South Street at what used to be the . . . → Read More: North Walk, Salisbury, North Street, Salisbury and North Street, Wilton
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Norton Drive is in Ford – a small village to the north of Salisbury. Norton Enterprise Park is an area within Churchfields Industrial Estate which is on the west of the city. The Enterprise Park opened in 2001. 1 I don’t know why either is so named, I’m afraid. There is a town called Norton 25 miles . . . → Read More: Norton Drive, Ford and Norton Entreprise Park, Salisbury Nuggs, Salisbury This name is no longer used, and I’m not sure exactly where in Salisbury the road or area was, but ‘A History of the County of Wiltshire says that, as with Rollestone another group of houses nearby, probably built or owned by the Nug or le Nugghe family, had become known as Nuggeston by 1350, . . . → Read More: Nuggeston, Salisbury Nursery Road is between the Wilton Road and the railway, to the west of Salisbury. I would guess that it refers to a nursery of plants rather than children, but I have no proof for this. My guess is on the basis that botanical nurseries tend perhaps to be longer lived than children’s nurseries. If you know . . . → Read More: Nursery Road, Salisbury Oakway Road is to the north of Salisbury, near Pauls Dene Crescent. Oak Ash Green is in Wilton, off South Street. Oak Tree Field is on the way to Odstock, to the south of the city, near Salisbury District Hospital. I don’t know if any or all of these places are named in reference to actual oak . . . → Read More: Oakway Road, Salisbury, Oak Tree Field and Oak Ash Road, Wilton According to the Victoria County History of Wiltshire: Visiting Salisbury? FootnotesSalisbury – The market place | British History . . . → Read More: Oatmeal Row, Salisbury Odstock Road is the road from Salisbury to Odstock, which is a village to the south of Salisbury. The name Odstock is derived from ‘Oda’s Stock‘, where Oda is a personal name, and stock is something like a farmstead. Planning a short break in Salisbury? Both the Old Blandford Road and the ‘new’ Blandford Road go over Harnham Hill, running south away from Salisbury. Both roads are so called, obviously enough, because they lead eventually to the town of Blandford Forum, in Dorset. I don’t know if there is a definitive explanation of the derivation of the name Blandford, but I have . . . → Read More: Old Blandford Road and Blandford Road, Salisbury Old Castle Road is on the northern edge of Salisbury. The name Old Castle Road is either: it was the original route of Castle Road. The road forms a semi circle with the northern end of Castle Road, going around the back of the . . . → Read More: Old Castle Road, Salisbury Oldfield Road is on the Bishopdown Farm estate, to the north-east of Salisbury. There are two possibilities for the derivation of the name of Oldfield Road. Either it was named after an ‘old field’, or it was named after a person with the surname ‘Oldfield’. Of the two possibilities, it seems to me to be reasonably clear that . . . → Read More: Oldfield Road, Salisbury |
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