1830
“In 1830 the whole surface of the road leading to Rehobath, (about three hundred years in length) which hitherto had been covered with water which issued from the aforesaid springs, and of which the inhabitants of the Common always drank, and through which travellers and cattle of necessity went, was raised by an immense quantity of earth, brought by the unemployed chargeable poor of this parish from the sides of the hill beyond; the water was thereby turned into its present channel. Another improvement of considerable value.”
William Daniell, The History Of Warminster Common, published 1850.