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New Canal Salisbury The New Canal is right in the middle of Salisbury city centre. It has many shops. It is fairly well known that it is called the ‘New Canal’ because it featured one of the cities larger water courses. It would be interesting to determine whether the meaning, or the implication, of the . . . → Read More: New Canal, Salisbury The New Inn in New Street New Street is in the centre of Salisbury, running close by the northern wall of the cathedral close. According to the Victoria County History of Wiltshire: New Street, occurs in a 13th-century deed, and was probably so-called in contrast to the earlier St. Martin’s Street. Until the 15th . . . → Read More: New Street, Salisbury The Old George Mall is Salisbury’s main pedestrian shopping precinct, right in the centre of the City. History of the Old George Inn Old George Mall Salisbury The Old George Mall is named after the Old George Inn, which stood, and, in part, still stands, at the Western end of the Mall, on the Salisbury’s . . . → Read More: Old George Mall, Salisbury 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 . . . → Read More: St Andrews SP1, St Andrews Close SP2, St Andrews Road SP2 Saint Clements Way is on Salisbury’s ‘Bishopdown Farm’ estate, which is to the north of the city, off the London Road. It shares the theme of many of the roads on the estate of being named after a saint. Most of these have no local connections at all, at least as far as I . . . → Read More: St Clements Way, Salisbury Statue of Saint Francis in Salisbury Cathedral St Francis Road, which is off the main road between Salisbury and Amesbury, would be named after Saint Francis Church. St Francis of Assissi is famously associated with animals. He was born in 1181 into a wealthy family, but he used his wealth to rebuild the Church . . . → Read More: St Francis Road, Salisbury Saint James the Less on the West Front of Salisbury Cathedral Saint James Close in Bishopdown. to the north of Salisbury is one of the roads that are named after saints on that estate. Like the others on the estate, there is no obvious connection between the saint and the area. There were at . . . → Read More: St James Close, Salisbury Saint Johns Chapel, now a private house, Salisbury Ayleswade Bridge, which spans the Avon between Salisbury and Harnham (and is part of St Nicholas Road, near the Rose and Crown pub), is actually comprised of two sections, divided by a probably artificial island that used to be known as Saint John’s Isle. It would . . . → Read More: St Johns Isle SP1 Saint Nicholas Road is next to Saint Nicholas Hospital, which may pre-date the beginnings of the Cathedral. It certainly existed by 1227, which was only 7 years after the building of the Cathedral began. Both Saint Nicholas Close in Wilton and Nicholas Court in the Spire View Estate in Salisbury are part of groups . . . → Read More: St Nicholas Road SP1, St Nicholas Close SP2, Nicholas Court SP2
Saint Thomas Church sign in Salisbury St Thomas’s Square is named after Thomas A Becket. It is next to the Church of Church of Saint Thomas A Becket, which pre-dates the Cathedral. It was largely rebuilt in the 15th Century, with much help from William Swayne, after whom both Swaynes Close and Swayne Road are . . . → Read More: St Thomas’s Square SP1 |
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