Wilfred Middlebrook, in his newspaper serialisation The Changing Face Of Warminster, written in 1970 and published in 1971, noted:
Bradley Road runs along the high ridge above the Common [Warminster Common], branching off from the Shaftesbury Road [A350] at the top of Bell Hill; it is the road that Lord Bath was called upon to construct in 1792, leading to Crockerton and Shearwater. The Marquess also made a road bordering Shearwater towards Maiden Bradley, thus we have the Bradley Road.
The council housing estate called The Tyning now occupies the beginning of this quiet road, which winds its lonely way past the old Isolation Hospital, built in 1914 and now a County Ambulance Centre, and a new housing estate called Bradley Close, to Botany Farm and the wooded heights abov Cannimore.
At one time the path led straight along at Botany through the woods and across the Crockerton-Frome road to Shearwater, but now it angles round a field past the Crockerton reservoir.