W.H. Hudson, in A Shepherd’s Life, published in 1910, referring to the sheep fair that was held at “Yarnborough Castle, the name of a vast prehistoric earthwork on one of the high downs between Warminster and Amesbury,†says:
“There is no village there and no house near; it is nothing but an immense circular wall and trench, inside of which the fair is held. It was formerly one of the most important sheep-fairs in the country, but for the last two or three decades has been falling off and is now of little account.â€