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Harnham Road is, slightly unusually1, in the centre of Harnham. Harnham is to the south of Salisbury, England. Meaning of ‘Harnham’ In the words of the writers of the 1952 ‘A History of Harnham’: Placename experts do not find it easy to agree about the origin and the meaning of the name Harnham2 . . . → Read More: Harnham Road, Harnham 
Harnwood Road is in Harnham – the village to the south of Salisbury. The road is a loop which joins the Old Blandford Road at both ends. ‘Harnwood’ is an interesting name. It would seem to be a conflation of ‘Harnham‘ and ‘woods’. I don’t know whether it’s a modern coinage or not. . . . → Read More: Harnwood Road, Harnham 
Harvard Close is in Harnham, which is a village on the southern edge of Salisbury. Harvard Close is part of a small estate called Harvard Heights. The reason for the word ‘Heights’ is fairly clear – it’s at the top of Harnham Hill. The derivation for ‘Harvard’ is more interesting. The Common Cold Research Unit . . . → Read More: Harvard Close, Harnham 
Hawks Ridge is on the Ridings Mead estate in East Harnham, just south of Salisbury. As for most of the rest of the Ridings Mead development, the name of the road is formed by attaching the name of a bird (in this case a whole category of birds) to a geographical feature. Unlike many . . . → Read More: Hawks Ridge, Harnham 
Heronswood is on the Ridings Mead estate in Harnham, to the south of Salisbury. In common with other roads on the estate, the name is a ‘portmanteau’ word. It’s constructed by joining the name of a bird to the name of a geographical feature. Other local examples are Owlswood, Ravenscroft and Swallowmead. The Heron There . . . → Read More: Heronswood, Harnham Kent Road is in Harnham, which is a village or suburb to the south of Salisbury. It’s part of a group of roads which with the exception of Wiltshire Road, follow the coast line of south-eastern England – Norfolk Road, Suffolk Road, Essex Road, Kent Road and Sussex Road. Derivation of the . . . → Read More: Kent Road, Harnham Kingfisher Close is on the Ridings Mead estate in east Harnham. Most of the roads in Ridings Mead are named after birds, and Kingfisher Close follows that theme. The bird Kingfishers have always seemed to me to be a magical bird – they seem to belong to another country, fitting in better with birds of . . . → Read More: Kingfisher Close, Salisbury Lime Kiln Way is at the Britford end of Harnham – close to the Ridings Mead estate, but I think perhaps part of a later development. Lime Kiln Way is close to the Ridings Mead estate in Harnham. I think it’s part of a later development than Ridings Mead itself. A lime kiln is an . . . → Read More: Lime Kiln Way, Salisbury Linnetsdene is to the south of Salisbury, on what I think is called the Ridings Mead estate. The roads on the estate are mainly named after birds. Typically with the name of the bird being joined to a word which is typically part of a road name. So other roads on the estate are . . . → Read More: Linnetsdene, Salisbury I visited the Ordnance Survey for a talk on their Open Space mapping tool last week. This is my first attempt at creating a map annotated with what I think are the derivations of the road names. It’s for a fairly small area of East Harnham. It would be great to create one . . . → Read More: Annotated map of East Harnham |
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