Saint Nicholas’ Hospital is now an old people’s home. Part of it pre-dates the start of the building of . . . → Read More: Saint Nicholas Hospital
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The Cathedral from Queen Elizabeth Gardens. This is as close as I could get to Constable’s ‘Salisbury Cathedral from . . . → Read More: Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows Minster Street is in the centre of Salisbury. It runs from the Poultry Cross to the Cheesemarket, or to put it another way, from the junction of Blue Boar Row and Castle Street to the junction of Silver Street and Butcher Row. It runs closely parallel with the Eastern edge of the grounds of the Church of . . . → Read More: Minster Street, Salisbury and Minster Street, Wilton Misery Hill is really outside the geographical scope of this website, but I thought it was interesting enough to include anyway. Misery Hill was a nickname for the hill on which the ANZAC military badge is carved, at Codford. 1
Visiting Salisbury? FootnotesAWM report Bustard Trench.pdf (application/pdf Object) and sanctuary2008.pdf (application/pdf . . . → Read More: Misery Hill, Codford Mitchell Road is on the Churchfields Industrial Estate, which is to the West of the centre of Salisbury. Most of the roads on the Churchfields estate are named after scientists or enigineers, of varying levels of fame (e.g. Smeaton Road, Watt Road and Telford Road). I’m not entirely sure who Mitchell Road is named after. There are perhaps . . . → Read More: Mitchell Road, Salisbury
Mitre House Salisbury Mitre Corner is in the centre of Salisbury. It’s the corner of New Street and the High Street, specifically the cathedral side of that junction. The house on the corner which currently hosts a clothes shop called, I think, Anokkaa is known as Mitre House. A mitre is the hat worn by a bishop, the . . . → Read More: Mitre Corner, Salisbury Mizmaze Hill is a name that is no longer much used. As far as I’m aware it had never been used as the name of a road, but it was the name of the hill at the Salisbury end of Bishopdown, which now hosts roads such as Ridgeway Road, Wordsworth Road and Moberly Road. The name . . . → Read More: Mizmaze Hill, Salisbury Recent posts – Montgomery I finally finished another really long post. This one on Montgomery Gardens This took a long time to write because I decided to write about Lord Montgomery of El Alamein. I’m not sure whether the road is named after him or not, but he was an interesting character and a significant man. I found an . . . → Read More: More Salisbury links Moberly Road is to the north of Salisbury, just outside the Ring Road, and directly off from Castle Road. It is named after George Moberly who was the Bishop of Salisbury from 1869 until 1885. It is close to other roads which are also named after Bishops: Hamilton Road, which is probably named after Bishop Walter Hamilton (1854-1869) 1 |
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