This sign has been put up on the path alongside the Avon, near Waitrose. I quite . . . → Read More: Rivers know this…
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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 the Stratford . . . → 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 Rather pleasingly, in a perverse sort . . . → 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 joins the . . . → 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 ‘Netherlands’, or ‘nether . . . → 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 called a . . . → Read More: Summerlock Approach SP2 ‘Oakbournes’ is an invented word, as far as I can tell, made from concatenating ‘oak and ‘bourne’. Oak Fairly close to the River Bourne, and a 100 yards or so to the West . . . → Read More: Westbourne Close SP1 ‘Wiley’ seems to be an alternative spelling for ‘Wylye’ – the Encylopaedia Britannica spells it as . . . → Read More: Wiley Terrace SP2 The Wilton Road leads to Wilton, obviously enough. The name Wilton itself derives from the river Wylye. Wilton is famous for the following: |
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