Extract from The Changing Face Of Warminster by Wilfred Middlebrook, published in 1971:
Across the road from the Minster Church is Furneaux House. The Manor of Furneaux consisted of houses and lands “situate dispersedly over all the parish of Warminster†back in the reign of Edward The First.
Across the Cley Hill Stream at Coldharbour, after passing the Lord Weymouth Grammar School Swimming Baths next to Furneaux House, is Furneaux Lane, also called Gashouse Lane as it leads to what used to be the Warminster Gasworks. The huge gasholders remain, but are now kept at full pressure from distant sources; from Bath I believe at the moment, but possibly from the North Sea at some time in the future.
Gashouse Farm entrance is passed on the way, then come the old gasworks’ cottages, now derelict, and the two sky-blue gasometers at the end of the lane. The site of the old gasworks is now a County Council yard, and the lane ends here at a gate leading to the Warminster Refuse Tip.
So very near to the town, yet surely one of the loneliest spots in the district, this Bath Road approach to Warminster is beset with spacious fields.