By admin, on July 2nd, 2008% This is named, in common with most of the roads on this Harnham estate, after an English county. With the exception of Wiltshire Road, the other counties follow the South and South Eastern coastline: Sussex Road, Kent Road, Essex Square, Suffolk Road and Norfolk Road.
The word ‘Suffolk’ itself derives from Southern folk, as opposed . . . → Read More: Suffolk Road SP2
By admin, on July 2nd, 2008% The word Sussex derives from ‘Saxons of the South’.
By admin, on June 17th, 2008% Ventry Close is near Saint Marks Road, in the north of Salisbury.
‘Ventry’ is a surname. According to the ancestry.com website1, it is ‘possibly an Americanized spelling of Italian Ventre’, meaning belly or stomach. However, it seems to be a very rare surname – just scanning through Google it seems to be more common in . . . → Read More: Ventry Close, Salisbury
By admin, on June 17th, 2008% Verona Road in Stratford – one of Salisbury’s northern suburbs.
It would be named after the play ‘The Two Gentleman of Verona’. The roads in this area, are all named with references to the works of Shakespeare, as a sort of pun on the name of the village Stratford.
Although Salisbury’s Stratford is . . . → Read More: Verona Road, Salisbury
By admin, on June 14th, 2008% The road to Warminster, which itself is the minster (church) on the river Were
By admin, on June 14th, 2008% The Wilton Road leads to Wilton, obviously enough. The name Wilton itself derives from the river Wylye.
Wilton is famous for the following:
carpets. The pub sign below shows somebody hard at work on a carpet loom being the ancient capital of Wessex. It was an important place before the rise of Salisbury being the . . . → Read More: Wilton Road SP2
By admin, on June 14th, 2008% One of a group of streets (Norfolk, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Sussex) named after counties – the others I think follow the South Eastern coast line from Norfolk in the North to Sussex in the South.
The word ‘Wiltshire’ derives from Shire of the Wylye.
By admin, on June 14th, 2008% The street which leads from the Centre towards Winchester. This is actually the second street to be called ‘Winchester Street’ – the original was what is now Milford Hill.
By admin, on June 14th, 2008% Either named after the House of Windsor (i.e the current Royal Family) or the town of Windsor itself.
It could be either – the House of Windsor only came into being in 1917, and although I would have guessed that the houses here are a little bit older than that, it could be that they . . . → Read More: Windsor Road, Windsor Street SP2
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