Writing in 1930, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, made the following note concerning Monkton Deverill:
This village has the distinction of being the only one, except Longbridge, of the five Deverills, to possess an inn, The New Inn, a name which generally denotes the oldest.
Powell (H. i. 130) found it once boasted an inn called “The Tippling Philosopher” of which there was another at Portskewett, in Monmouthshire, in 1875. What is the story?