Paddock Way, Laverstock

Paddock Way is on a small estate in Laverstock, a village to the East of Salisbury.

The names of the roads on the estate have a rural theme – the other roads are Silverwood Drive, Westfield Close, and Woodland Way.

The word ‘paddock’ usually means:

A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.¹

…but it is also an Old English word for frog or toad ², as at the start of Shakespeare’s Macbeth ³, where one of the witch’s familiars is a toad called ‘Paddock’⁴.

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Footnotes

1. paddock – Wiktionary [↩]
2. Online Etymology Dictionary [↩]
3. Macbeth: Entire Play [↩]
4. In “Macbeth,” who are Greymalkin and Paddock? – Macbeth – Questions & Answers [↩]