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Wilton Road SP2

The Wilton Road leads to Wilton, obviously enough. The name Wilton itself derives from the river Wylye.

Wilton is famous for the following:
- carpets. The pub sign below shows somebody har at work on a carpet loom
- being the ancient capital of Wessex. It was an important place before the rise of Salisbury
- being the home of the Earls of Pembroke

The Wilton pub sign showing Wilton carpet making

The Wilton pub sign

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By mattypenny – June 14, 2008

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  1. salisburyandstonehenge.net » Blog Archive » Rectory Road SP2 linked to this post on November 25, 2008

    [...] Centre in Dew’s Road – Saint Paul’s, on the Roundabout – the Emmanuel Church in Wilton Road – the now defunct Saint Clement’s [...]

  2. New Zealand Avenue, Salisbury - Salisbury and Stonehenge linked to this post on June 7, 2009

    [...] New Zealand Avenue is to the north west of Salisbury, between the Devizes Road and the Wilton Road. [...]

  3. Netheravon Road and Netheravon Close, Salisbury - Salisbury and Stonehenge linked to this post on June 22, 2009

    [...] roads which are named after relatively local places tend to lead in their general direction. The Wilton Road runs towards Wilton, the Old Shaftesbury Drove runs towards Shaftesbury, and the Odstock Road goes [...]

  4. Marlborough Road, Salisbury -Salisbury and Stonehenge linked to this post on January 27, 2010

    [...] Road runs in the general direction of Marlborough. However unlike, say, the Southampton Road or the Wilton Road, you wouldn’t travel to Marlborough up the Marlborough [...]



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