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There are four road names which begin with the word ‘Lower’, two of which are actually called ‘Lower Road’. The five are: Lower Folly in Wilton Lower Road in Britford Lower Road between Bemerton and Quidhampton Lower Street in Harnham.htmlBoth Lower Folly and Lower Street have corresponding ‘Upper’ versions of their names. The ‘Folly’ probably refers to the building in . . . → Read More: Lower Roads in Salisbury, Quidhampton and Britford and Lower Folly Wilton Maplecroft is on the ‘Ridings Mead’ estate, to the south of the city centre. Maple Crescent is in the Fugglestone area on the east of Wilton. Maples come in many different varieties. The sugar maple is tapped to make maple syrup. The maple leaf is featured in the flag of Canada. It has been a symbol of Canada since . . . → Read More: Maplecroft, Salisbury and Maple Crescent, Wilton Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith. The Market Place, in the centre of Wilton, could be said to date from ‘time immemorial’. Edward I (king from 1272 until 1307) referred to a charter for a market in Wilton having been granted by his ‘ancestors’. (1) The market was a significant part of the economy of a town or . . . → Read More: Market Place, Wilton Minster Street is in the centre of Salisbury. It runs from the Poultry Cross to the Cheesemarket, or to put it another way, from the junction of Blue Boar Row and Castle Street to the junction of Silver Street and Butcher Row. It runs closely parallel with the Eastern edge of the grounds of the Church of . . . → Read More: Minster Street, Salisbury and Minster Street, Wilton 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 Northleigh Terrace is in Wilton, which is a small town to the west of Salisbury. I don’t know why it is called Northleigh Terrace. There is a Northleigh in Devon, near Colyton and a ‘North Leigh’ in Oxfordshire, but I don’t know of any connection to Wilton.
Visiting Salisbury? The North Walk is one of the roads within Salisbury Cathedral’s Close. Both North Street in Wilton and North Street in Salisbury are part of small groups of roads which ‘box the compass’ to some extent. So in Salisbury, North Street meets West Street, East Street and South Street at what used to be the . . . → Read More: North Walk, Salisbury, North Street, Salisbury and North Street, Wilton Oakway Road is to the north of Salisbury, near Pauls Dene Crescent. Oak Ash Green is in Wilton, off South Street. Oak Tree Field is on the way to Odstock, to the south of the city, near Salisbury District Hospital. I don’t know if any or all of these places are named in reference to actual oak . . . → Read More: Oakway Road, Salisbury, Oak Tree Field and Oak Ash Road, Wilton 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 The Olivier family, like . . . → Read More: Olivier Road, Wilton and Olivier Close, Salisbury 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 |
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