Washern Close SP2

The name ‘Washern Road’ is derived from an old district of Wilton.

Elizabeth Crittal’s ‘A History of the County of Wiltshire’¹ refers to the ‘demesne land’ of Washern passing from the abbey to the Earl of Pembroke. This would presumably have been in 1544 when Henry VIII dissolved Wilton Abbey and gave the site and lands to William Herbert, whose wife Anne was the sister of Henry’s last wife Catherine Parr²

Footnotes

1. Crittal, E (editor) (1962) ‘Wilton: Churches and Protestant nonconformity’, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 28-33. [Internet], Available from: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41771 [Date accessed: 16 June 2008] [↩]
2. Shortt, H. ed. (1972), Salisbury: a new approach to the city and its neighbourhood London, Longman [↩]