The Greencroft SP1

The Greencroft is on the eastern edge of Salisbury city centre, just inside the ringroad.

A ‘croft’ is defined as one of the following:

• a small farm worked by a crofter ¹
• An enclosed plot of land, often adjacent to a dwelling house ²
• or, simply, a small piece of land ³

‘Greencroft’, I would guess, is more likely to be derived from one of the latter two definitions – the ‘crofter’ isn’t somebody who appears in anything I’ve read about the Salisbury area.

The Greencroft is now a happy place – there’s a really good children’s play area, but it has a darker history in that as late as 1619 the City reserved its ‘right of use for the execution of criminals’⁴

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Footnotes

1. WordNet Search – 3.0 [↩]
2. Norfolk Record Office: glossary [↩]
3. www.tsgraves.com/relics/legalLand.htm [↩]
4. Salisbury – St Edmund’s parish | British History Online [↩]