Writing in 1930, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, made the following note concerning Monkton Deverill:
The “Roman Road’ from Sarum to Severn via Great Ridge Wood leads straight for the Romano-British settlement on Cold Kitchen Hill here and is then lost.
The modern road goes to Mere and Maiden Bradley.
A track opposite the inn goes over the downs to Sutton Veny, meeting other branch tracks en route.