By mattypenny, on September 25th, 2009%
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
By mattypenny, on April 26th, 2009% Old Sarum is the hill fort to the north of Salisbury. The Business Park is just north of that. There’s a map below.
There is some detail on the derivation of the words ‘Sarum’ and ‘Salisbury’ on the page for Salisbury Road and Sarum Close, but ‘Sarum’ seems to be a medieval attempt to render . . . → Read More: Old Sarum Business Park, Salisbury
By mattypenny, on March 31st, 2009% Parsonage Green in is Harnham, Parsonage Mead is in Wilton and Parsonage Close is in Stratford-sub-Castle. These are to the South, West and North of Salisbury respectively.
The word ‘parson’ itself seems to have the same root as ‘person’. The Online Etymological Dictionary suggests it may be an abbreviation for ‘persona ecclesiae‘, meaning a ‘person . . . → Read More: Parsonage Green, Harnham, Parsonage Mead, Wilton and Parsonage Close, Stratford
By mattypenny, on February 13th, 2009% Phillips Lane is at least part of the road that links the A345 just beyond Old Sarum to the ‘Little Durnford road’, just north of Stratford-sub-Castle. It is presumably named after a local landowner.
By mattypenny, on July 13th, 2008% The derivation of the name of ‘Shakespeare Road’ is that it is in the village of Stratford-sub-Castle and William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The Salisbury Stratford is actually on the Avon (although a different Avon), but was named instead in reference to the fact that it is physically below (‘sub‘) Old Sarum (the ‘castle‘).
By mattypenny, on July 13th, 2008% Shakespeare and Shelley
Shelley Road is probably named after the poet Percy Shelley. Although there are no other roads named after poets other than Shakespeare represented in this area, all the other roads are themed around Shakespeare . It doesn’t seem too great a jump from Shakespeare to another famous English poet, Shelley.
England in . . . → Read More: Shelley Drive SP1
By mattypenny, on July 2nd, 2008% Like Snakey this isn’t an ‘official’ road name – at its bottom end, I think it’s actually called ‘Mill Lane’, but also like ‘Snakey’ I think a good proportion of Salisbury people would know where you meant.
Stink Pot Alley is very roughly parallel with ‘Snakey’, in that they both join the same two roads . . . → Read More: Stink Pot Alley SP2
By mattypenny, 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 mattypenny, on June 14th, 2008% One of the Shakespeare related street names in Stratford sub Castle. The Earl of Warwick is a charactor in Henry VI
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