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Locks Lane is in Quidhampton. According to a document published in the year 2000 called ‘The Quidhampton Story’, Locks Lane is named after a cabinet maker called Bertram Lock and his wife Violet. During the First World War many cabinet makers and metal workers found employment with the War Department. … When hostilities ceased lorries . . . → Read More: Locks Lane, Quidhampton Middleton Road is on the northern side of Salisbury, close to Saint Paul’s Church. Middleton Road is by no means in the ‘middle of town’. At the time it was built, ‘by the 1890s’ (1), it would have been on Salisbury’s outskirts. It could be that ‘Middleton’ is the name of the one of . . . → Read More: Middleton Road, Salisbury Moberly Road is to the north of Salisbury, just outside the ring road, and directly off from Castle Road. It is named after George Moberly, who was the Bishop of Salisbury from 1869 until his death in 1885. It is close to other roads which are also named after Bishops: Hamilton Road, which is probably . . . → Read More: Moberly Road, Salisbury Montgomery Gardens are in the western part of Salisbury, leading off from Christie Miller Road. I don’t know why the road is named Montgomery Gardens, but there are two strong possibilities: it’s a reference to the Earldom of Montgomery, a title held by the Herbert family of Wilton House it’s a tribute to the ware . . . → Read More: Montgomery Gardens, Salisbury Napier Crescent is in Laverstock, which is a village a mile to the west of Salisbury city centre. It’s on an estate built by a developer called Ford, or perhaps Fforde, in about 1964. It’s often referred to as ‘the pebbledash estate’. I have no idea why it’s called Napier Crescent. This is particularly irritating . . . → Read More: Napier Crescent, Laverstock Neal Close is on the Bishopdown Farm estate, in the north east outskirts of the city of Salisbury. I’m afraid I don’t know the reason why it’s called Neal Close. There are a number of roads in the area which are, I think, surnames but I can’t see any link between them. The name ‘Neal’ . . . → Read More: Neal Close, Salisbury Nelson Road is just north of Salisbury city centre, just inside the ring road. I think that Nelson Road is almost certainly named after Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson. The puzzle with the name of Nelson Road is its proximity to Hamilton Road. I don’t know if this is a reference to the relationship between . . . → Read More: Nelson Road, Salisbury Neville Close was named after Robert Neville, who was Bishop of Salisbury from 1427 to 1438 1. Neville Close is on Bishopdown, which is to the north east of Salisbury. Many of the roads in the area are named after other Bishops (2) in reference to the name ‘Bishopdown’. Visiting Salisbury? For . . . → Read More: Neville Close, Salisbury Oldfield Road is on the Bishopdown Farm estate, to the north-east of Salisbury. There are two possibilities for the derivation of the name of Oldfield Road. Either it was named after an ‘old field’, or it was named after a person with the surname ‘Oldfield’. Of the two possibilities, it seems to me to be . . . → Read More: Oldfield Road, Salisbury Olivier Close is on Bemerton Heath, to the North East of Salisbury. Olivier Road is in Wilton. My guess would be that both are related to the Olivier family, some of whom lived in Wilton. This is obviously more clear for the address in Wilton than it is for the one in Salisbury. Edith Olivier . . . → Read More: Olivier Road, Wilton and Olivier Close, Salisbury |
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