Manning Close is on the Bishopdown Farm estate, to the north of Salisbury.
I don’t know who Manning Close is named after. It’s one of a number of roads in the area which are a bit of a mystery.
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Myrrfield Road is on the Bishopdown Farm estate, on the north east side of Salisbury. Myrrfield is the name of the meadow in which Salisbury Cathedral was built. It is sometime spelt Merry-field, as in a poem by a Doctor Walter Pope in 1713: One day as the prelate on his down bed Recruiting his . . . → Read More: Myrrfield Road, Salisbury Neal Close is on the Bishopdown Farm estate, in the north east outskirts of the city of Salisbury. I’m afraid I don’t know the reason why it’s called Neal Close. There are a number of roads in the area which are, I think, surnames but I can’t see any link between them. The name ‘Neal’ . . . → Read More: Neal Close, Salisbury Presumably this road was named “The Crusades” to follow the ecclesiastical theme of much of the rest of the Bishopdown estate. It’s an odd name. The estate was built, I think, in the early 1990′s. I wonder whether the same name would have been chosen today after the conflicts of the last few years. I don’t know what the derivation of this road name is. Purely anecdotally, ‘Tryhorn’ seems to be a name that’s more common in the Salisbury area than it is in others. If you have any idea why this road is named ‘Tryhorn Drive’, please let me know. |
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