Extract from The Changing Face Of Warminster by Wilfred Middlebrook, published in 1971:
The name Bugley is sometimes attributed to a fairy origin, though anything less fairylike in sound than ‘Bugley’ would be hard to imagine. ‘Bugge’ is a spirit or ghost, and there is the North Country expression ‘boggart,’ meaning a fearful ghost. If Manley’s folklore is anything to go by, there were boggarts in plenty at Bugley in olden times. In Domesday the name is Bogelygh, Buggel in 1256, and Billeh in 1344; today it is plain Bugley, with modern bungalows mushrooming along the sides of Victoria Road to make of it a pleasant suburb of Warminster.