This sign has been put up on the path alongside the Avon, near Waitrose. I quite like it.
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The river at Mill Lane, Stratford Mill Lane is in Stratford, which is a Northern suburb of Salisbury. In turns into a smaller path, which is popularly known as Stink Pot Alley. Millers Close is a road leading off from Mill Lane. There seem to have been a number of mills, at different times, in . . . → Read More: Mill Lane and Millers Close, Stratford There are five mill-related road names in the Salisbury area, 1 Millbrook which skirts the northern bit of the Godolphin school Mill Road which is the road that loops from the train station around past Queen Elizabeth Gardens to Crane Bridge Road. Mill Lane and the adjacent Millers Close, in Stratford and Mill Stream Approach . . . → Read More: Mill Stream Approach, 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 Netheravon Close and Netheravon Road are both in the northern part of Salisbury. They are at the southern end of the ridge that runs from Salisbury itself to Old Sarum. Netheravon Etymology The derivation of the word ‘Netheravon’ in itself is fairly clear. ‘Nether’ is derived from the Old English ‘neotherra‘, meaning ‘lower’, as in . . . → Read More: Netheravon Road and Netheravon Close, Salisbury Summerlock is the name of the stream that runs from the Avon at the Meadows (near Ashley Road1), alongside the Waitrose and Central car parks then alongside Waters Road into Queen Elizabeth Gardens2. I don’t know whether the mechanism that controls the flow of the water from the Avon into the Summerlock stream would be . . . → Read More: Summerlock Approach SP2 ‘Oakbournes’ is an invented word, as far as I can tell, made from concatenating ‘oak and ‘bourne’. Oak The oak is seen as a tree of great strength – with ‘Hearts of Oak’, which is literally the middle of the oak tree, symbolizing the bravery. The oak is seen as the national tree of . . . → Read More: The Oakbournes SP1 Fairly close to the River Bourne, and a 100 yards or so to the West of it. ‘Wiley’ seems to be an alternative spelling for ‘Wylye’ – the Encylopaedia Britannica spells it as ‘Wiley’ 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 |
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