Danny Howell, in 2003, noted:
Blue Ball Path at Warminster is mentioned in the Survey Of Public Rights Of Way under the National Parks and Accesss to the Countryside Act 1949 1950-1959 and an Unofficial Commencement on a Public Footpath Map under the Rights Of Way Act 1932, 1935 (Document G16/132/51 in the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office).