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Little London is a group of half a dozen houses to the west of Broadchalke. It’s outside of the typical geographical limits of the website – Little London might be closer to Shaftesbury than it is to Salisbury, but I’m including it because I like the name and because there is a family connection. . . . → Read More: Little London The pictures below are by my friend, Fred Fieber. Fred paints and draws different things, but one of his main subjects is Salisbury. I like Fred’s pictures very much, so I’m really pleased to be able to include some of them on my website. If I can point some web traffic in his direction too, . . . → Read More: Fred Fieber Linnetsdene is to the south of Salisbury, on what I think is called the Ridings Mead estate. The roads on the estate are mainly named after birds. Typically with the name of the bird being joined to a word which is typically part of a road name. So other roads on the estate are . . . → Read More: Linnetsdene, Salisbury Locks Lane is in Quidhampton. According to a document published in the year 2000 called ‘The Quidhampton Story’, Locks Lane is named after a cabinet maker called Bertram Lock and his wife Violet. During the First World War many cabinet makers and metal workers found employment with the War Department. … When hostilities ceased lorries . . . → Read More: Locks Lane, Quidhampton London Road is to the north east of Salisbury. It is the ‘London Road’, obviously enough, because it is the road from Salisbury to London. I enjoy comedian Frank Skinner’s description of London – “a large conurbation in the South-East of England.” Etymology of London The meaning of the word ‘London’ seems to be . . . → Read More: London Road, Salisbury Longland is to the west of Salisbury, just off from the Wilton Road. It is mentioned in the Victoria County History: In 1790, the year of inclosure, we read of four fields: Church, North, Middle, and St. Ann’s Stile (or Little) Fields. (fn. 205) Long Lands or Brick Field may perhaps be reckoned a fifth.1 . . . → Read More: Longland, Salisbury I’ve typed up the new schedules for the Salisbury Odeon Kids Club and Senior Screen: Odeon Senior Screen schedule Odeon Kids’ Club Previously at the Odeon 22/23 May – Up Pixar animation, predicted to win a best film Oscar, about an old man who floats his house off to South America on hundreds of . . . → Read More: June Odeon Senior Screen and Kids Club schedules |
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