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Mill Road is in central Salisbury. It runs along the northern side of Queen Elizabeth Gardens. I think it’s named in reference to the ‘original’ Fisherton Mill. I believe that the name ‘Fisherton Mill’ has been applied to two different buildings – the current Fisherton Mill, just off of Fisherton Street, and the ‘old’ Fisherton Mill which was . . . → Read More: Mill Road, Salisbury Minster Street is in the centre of Salisbury. It runs from the Poultry Cross to the Cheesemarket, or to put it another way, from the junction of Blue Boar Row and Castle Street to the junction of Silver Street and Butcher Row. It runs closely parallel with the Eastern edge of the grounds of the Church of . . . → Read More: Minster Street, Salisbury and Minster Street, Wilton 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 Saint Andrews Church in Laverstock The three roads dedicated to Saint Andrew are in different parts of the Salisbury area. St Andrews in Laverstock St Andrews in Laverstock is named after Saint Andrew’s Church in Church Road, Laverstock, which is nearby. Part of St Andrews is also alongside the village hall, which I think is actually called St . . . → Read More: St Andrews SP1, St Andrews Close SP2, St Andrews Road SP2 These roads on the north east side of town, are close to, and named after, Saint Marks Church. I believe that there was once an older Saint Marks Church, or possibly Chapel, in Saint Marks Road itself, but I don’t have a reference for this – I think it was known as an ‘iron church’. Saint Mark . . . → Read More: St Marks Avenue, St Marks Road Salisbury |
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