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Mitchell Road is on the Churchfields Industrial Estate, which is to the West of the centre of Salisbury. Most of the roads on the Churchfields estate are named after scientists or enigineers, of varying levels of fame (e.g. Smeaton Road, Watt Road and Telford Road). I’m not entirely sure who Mitchell Road is named after. . . . → Read More: Mitchell Road, Salisbury There is a Nadder Terrace in Churchfields, to the west of Salisbury, and another in Wilton which is a small town about three miles from Salisbury city centre. Nadder Lane is in Quidhampton, close to where the Nadder meets the Wylye. All three roads are named after the River Nadder, which starts near Shaftesbury then . . . → Read More: Nadder Terrace, Salisbury, Nadder Terrace, Wilton and Nadder Lane, Quidhampton
Sir Isaac Newton Newton Road is on the Churchfields industrial estate, on the west side of Salisbury. It is named after Isaac Newton, the scientist. This follows the theme of the other roads on the industrial estate, which are named after scientists or engineers. For example: Smeaton Road Watt Road According to the . . . → Read More: Newton Road, Salisbury Norton Drive is in Ford – a small village to the north of Salisbury. Norton Enterprise Park is an area within Churchfields Industrial Estate which is on the west of the city. The Enterprise Park opened in 2001. 1 I don’t know why either is so named, I’m afraid. There is a town called . . . → Read More: Norton Drive, Ford and Norton Entreprise Park, Salisbury Bust of John Smeaton Smeaton Road is named, as are most of the roads on the Churchfields Estate, after a famous engineer. John Smeaton (1724-1792) designed Eddystone Lighthouse, Aberdeen bridge and Charlestown Harbour in St Austell. Update: There is podcast (downloadable MP3) of a lecture about John Smeaton called ‘Surveying the scene, engineering the . . . → Read More: Smeaton Road SP2 Telford Road is on the Churchfields industrial estate, and like most of the roads on the estate it is named after an engineer, in this case Thomas Telford, who was what we would now call a ‘civil engineer’, building canals, roads and bridges. The new town of Telford was named after Thomas Telford. One of the Churchfields Industrial roads, named after a scientist or engineer, in this case James Watt, who invented the condensing steam engine among other things |
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