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 . . . → Read More: Manning Close, Salisbury
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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 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’ itself has the same . . . → 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 . . . → Read More: The Crusades SP1 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 . . . → Read More: Tryhorn Drive SP2 |
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