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