Oakway Road, Salisbury, Oak Tree Field and Oak Ash Road, Wilton

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 trees.

The oak is seen as a tree of great strength – with ‘Hearts of Oak’, which is literally the middle of the oak tree, symbolizing bravery. The oak is seen as the national tree of England (Icons – A portrait of England, and famously Charles II is supposed to have hidden in an oak tree at Boscobel, near Wolverhampton.



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