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The
immediate puzzle about the name Bridge Sollers
is that it is older than any known bridge.
In Domesday it is simply 'Bridge' at a time
when the only possible site of a bridge
across the Wye in Herefordshire would have
been in the city of Hereford
itself.
The explanation is likely
to be that at the time that the first English
speakers arrived in the area, there was
an old Roman bridge standing just downstream.
This bridge would have carried a road which
ran south from the town of Magnis, and continued
through the parish of Madley along what
is known as Stoney Street. The name ‘Sollers’
came from a family associated with the church
and parish of Bridge Sollers. |
