According to ‘A History of the County of Wiltshire’ 1
Footnotes
- Salisbury: St Edmund’s parish’, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 83-85. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41786&strquery=rollestone. Date accessed: 22 October 2008.,
Rollestone Street is said to have derived its name from Rolf, who built a group of houses in this area.
There is also a Rollestone Manor, near Shrewton. According to the the Wiltshire Community History website, this Rollestone was ‘named from the tenant of the manor in the 1240s’.Wiltshire County Council – Wiltshire Community History Get Community Information [↩]
