Palmer Road is just off of Devizes Road, to the north west of Salisbury.
I would guess that ‘Palmer’ would be the surname of somebody connected with the development of the road – I don’t recall anyone prominent in Salisbury politics called Palmer.
If you know the derivation, please leave me a comment.
Derivation of the surname ‘Palmer’
The surname ‘Palmer’ is an interesting one.
It seems to derive from pilgrimage.
A pilgrim who had travelled all the way to the Holy Land would bring back a piece of palm with them, as a souvenir, or, possibly as a proof. 1
As a name it has some similarity to the Muslim ‘El Haji’ construct, which signifies that the person has completed the pilgrimage to Mecca 2, like the Senegalese footballer El Hadji Diouf. 3
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Footnotes
- British Surnames, also Palmer (Pilgrim) – LoveToKnow 1911 [↩]
- hadji – definition of hadji by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. [↩]
- El Hadji Diouf – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [↩]
