|
|||||
|
Lees Court is just off from Devizes Road, at the southern end. I don’t know why it’s called Lees Court for sure – but from memory either the Devizes Road shoe repairer’s or the shop on the corner of Ashley Road and Coldharbour Lane was called ‘Lees’. Perhaps there was some connection. Update: I was . . . → Read More: Lees Court, Salisbury Lime Kiln Way is at the Britford end of Harnham – close to the Ridings Mead estate, but I think perhaps part of a later development. Lime Kiln Way is close to the Ridings Mead estate in Harnham. I think it’s part of a later development than Ridings Mead itself. A lime kiln is an . . . → Read More: Lime Kiln Way, Salisbury Linden Close is in Laverstock, at the eastern edge of the ‘pebbledash-ed’ estate. ‘Linden’ is a word for ‘lime tree’, or ‘made from the wood of a lime-tree’ 1. The names of the roads on the estate are a bit of a mystery to me – there’s no obvious relation between them. To use a . . . → Read More: Linden Close, Laverstock Link Way is on Bishopdown, to the north of Salisbury city centre. It’s an odd name for the road, because it’s basically a cul-de-sac. It doesn’t really link anything. It could be that at some stage in the past it did link two roads. Link Wray Whenever I see the road or hear it’s name . . . → Read More: Link Way, Salisbury Little Ben is a nickname for the clock tower in Fisherton Street. The clock tower was built in 1892 by a Dr John Roberts. He had the tower built as a memorial for his wife, who had died the previous year. I’ve not been able to find out anything further about John Roberts, I’m . . . → Read More: Little Ben – the Fisherton Street Clock Tower 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 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 |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Salisbury and Stonehenge - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
