The obvious meaning of ‘saddler’ is somebody who makes or sells saddles. It is, or was, also used in the army for the person whose job it is to look after the saddles 1.
More interestingly, perhaps, Saddler was also the NATO code name for a Soviet missile – the R-16 was known as the SS-7 Saddler 2. The missile could deply a 20 to 25 megaton nuclear warhead.
Mead, as noted elsewhere (see Swallowmead) is an old English form of the word meadow. ‘Mead’ as part of a road name seems to have come into fashion over the last 20 or so years.
Footnotes
- Chambers Search Chambers [↩]
- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/562073/SS-7-Saddler [↩]
