Recent posts – Nelson, Nadder, Myrrfield and Monty
This is another more general post.
I finished my Nelson Road page, which is largely about Nelson and Lady Hamilton. I’m more than a little uneasy about this because there are ‘more important’ things to note about Nelson, but I decided that, in the context of a set of discussions on road names, the closeness of Nelson Road and Hamilton Road was worth discussion.
The ‘Nadder roads‘ came next. I found the etymology of the moving ‘n’ interesting.
There were a couple of webpages related to the Nadder that didn’t fit into my page, but are worth linking to.
A poem about the Nadder at Bemerton as seen by a small boy:
Our River by Cecil Noyce
A website on the villages of the Nadder valley:
The ‘first’ of the ‘M’s is Myrrfield Road. I’m not entirely sure whether this will have gone up on the website before this post or not. Anyhow, there was a bit of material around about this name, the best being a couple of paragraphs about it in a book called Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum, which was published in 1896, and is therefore available as a web page at Project Gutenberg.
I’m currently working on a page for Montgomery Gardens. I’m doing a longish chronology of Field Marshal Montgomery’s life, but whether the road is named after him, I don’t know.
New images
I’ve added another crop (pun intended) of my not very good photos, mainly related to the saints:
- St Thomas’s Square SP1
- St Nicholas Road SP1, St Nicholas Close SP2, Nicholas Court SP2
- St Johns Isle SP1
- St James Close, Salisbury
- St Francis Road, Salisbury
- St Clements Way, Salisbury
- St Andrews SP1, St Andrews Close SP2, St Andrews Road SP2
- Old George Mall, Salisbury
Google Image Search is only showing four pictures from the site, as far as I can tell. A couple of weeks ago it had three, but one of these (of the New Inn, isn’t there any more. I can’t see why these four are the ones that are returned. It doesn’t matter, but I’d love to know how it works…
Miscellaneous links relating to Salisbury
Some other stuff I’ve come across over the last week…
Salisbury has a prospective astronaut:
Salisbury’s ‘Freecycle’ site is:
Wiltshire Council has digitized many old publications. There looks as if there’s some interesting stuff, for example this page on the word ‘Sarum’ from a magazine called ‘Wiltshire Notes and Queries’:
Wiltshire Council – Wiltshire Community History Get Text Image
The Salisbury Tornado
My favourite Salisbury related news item this week was the tornado at Figsbury Rings:
[...] to the Salisbury Journal story about a tornado that I mentioned in a previous post, a video has been uploaded to [...]