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Palmer Road is just off of Devizes Road, to the north west of Salisbury. I would guess that ‘Palmer’ would be the surname of somebody connected with the development of the road – I don’t recall anyone prominent in Salisbury politics called Palmer. If you know the derivation, please leave me a comment. Derivation of . . . → Read More: Palmer Road, Salisbury There are two derivations that I can see for the name of Radcliffe Road, although neither may be correct. As discussed in the entry for Romer Road, the theme for the road names on this estate could be: military figures who have been awarded the Order of the Bath, or people with some connection with . . . → Read More: Radcliffe Road, Salisbury Ridgeway is named after Bishop Frederick Edward Ridgeway who was the Bishop of Salisbury from 1911 until 1921. The National Portrait Gallery has pictures of him here: Frederick Edward Ridgeway (1848-1921), Bishop of Salisbury. Sadly I don’t know very much at all about Bishop Ridgeway, apart from the following bits of trivia. Bishop Ridgeway . . . → Read More: Ridgeway Road SP1 Rogers Close is in Quidhampton. This could be named after the landowner or developer of the time when the Close was developed. Bishop Roger Alternatively it may be that the name of the close is a tribute to ‘Roger of Salisbury’ who was Bishop from 1102 to 1139.1 Roger of Salisbury seems to have . . . → Read More: Rogers Close SP2 I am very unsure about the derivation of the name ‘Romer Road’, but I think that it’s reasonably likely that it is named after Sir Robert Romer. Sir Robert Romer was made Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) in 1901 1. This is a link with the other roads on this estate: Wavell . . . → Read More: Romer Road SP2 Walter Scammel was Bishop of Salisbury from 1284 to 1287. According to ‘A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6′1 Scots Lane probably takes its name from John Scocche who lived near the boundary of St. Thomas and St. Edmund in 1269″ Footnotes‘Salisbury – St Edmund’s parish‘, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 83-85. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41786. Date accessed: 11 . . . → Read More: Scots Lane SP1 Seagrim Road was perhaps named after William Seagrim, or his family, who endowed Wilton Free School with £25 in 1840. The school was closed in 1923. 1 Footnotes‘Wilton – Schools and charities | British History Online‘, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 33-36. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41772. Date accessed: 11 July 2008. . . . → Read More: Seagrim Road SP2
Seth Ward Seth Ward was Bishop of Salisbury from 1667 to 1689. It’s probably fair to say that he was one of our most impressive Bishops. He was born in Buntingford in Hertfordshire, where there are the Bishop Seth Wards’s almshouses 1. Prior to becoming Salisbury’s Bishop he was the Bishop of Exeter, and before . . . → Read More: Seth Ward Drive SP1 Bust of John Smeaton Smeaton Road is named, as are most of the roads on the Churchfields Estate, after a famous engineer. John Smeaton (1724-1792) designed Eddystone Lighthouse, Aberdeen bridge and Charlestown Harbour in St Austell. Update: There is podcast (downloadable MP3) of a lecture about John Smeaton called ‘Surveying the scene, engineering the . . . → Read More: Smeaton Road SP2 |
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