The latter end of Queen Victoria's reign saw the rise of a new middle class and an explosion in house building in the UK – resulting in the creation of entire suburbs – this created an open and hungry market for the nursery industry, which grew rapidly to meet the demand for ornamental plants for new home owners "doing the garden".
However, rather than jumping in the car to the nearest DIY centre… your average Victorian would (probably also on a bank holiday weekend!) pop to their local nursery… these would typically be local businesses set amongst the houses springing up around them… in what relative to today would still be open fields.
The nursery from which Nursery Road takes its name existed down the slope towards South Street an extended the full length of current Nursery Road (as you can see from the image taken from the 1874 Ordnance Survey map).
Many of the houses down this street (which are also detailed on the map) still exist from this era… as does the narrow Victorian road with cars having to park up on the pavement to allow enough space for traffic to carefully pass.
If you are logging your find online… why not also log your favourite plant / flower… modern names… latin names (if you're that clever!)… pictures / photos… maybe the nursery would have had it in stock?