Circa 1980, Percy Trollope penned some handwritten notes in which he recalled road, place and lane names, past and/or present, of Horningsham. He noted:
Place, Road And Lane Names Of Horningsham:
Dock Hill, leading to Warminster.
Hitcombe Bottom.
Mark’s Hill.
Newbury.
Gentle Street.
Munday’s Lane.
Rowe’s Hill (named after the name of Rowe).
White Street, leading to Stone Gate and Longleat Park.
Parsonage Road, leading to Crockerton via Shearwater and Forresters Road.
Dark Lane, near the Dairyhouse or Park Farm leading to Rowe’s Hill.
Church Lane, east of the Church, or “up the other side”.
Pound Lane, leading to Peteridge or Pethyridge and the Butts.
The Street.
Town Well.
Water Lane.
Anchor Barton, near the George & Dragon inn.
Haskells Hill.
The Common.
Broadslade.
Lodge Hill.
The Field. Pathway leading to Longleat Lodge.
Scotland (cul-de-sac).
New Town, leading to Cock Road.
Scammells.
Highwood, leading to Longleat.
The Forest Hill, leading to the Frome road and county boundary.
The Cross.
Little Island.
Doctor’s Lane.
Sandy Hill, leading to Maiden Bradley via Top road and Bet Carver’s Corner.
Tomkins Pool.
Chapel Street.
West Common.
The Batch, leading to the Old Rectory House.
Pottle Street.
Little Horningsham.
Back Lane or Roddacombe Lane. [Percy Trollope also spells it Roddencombe Lane].
Gallows Gate. Entrance to Longbridge Deverill.
Bruton Commissioners – Turnpike and Maiden Bradley road.