West Wiltshire District Council’s Warminster Town Centre Conservation Area Character Assessment, Informative Document, Consultation Draft/Cabinet Draft, of December 2006, includes the following notes:
FOOTPATHS AND PUBLIC SPACES
There are a number of pedestrian routes around the town that have existed for many years. Often to the rear of the main streets these serve to link different parts of the town and historically may have been used to get to market or as alternative routes to the main streets that were often overrun on market days.
There are few public open green spaces within the Conservation Area although there are a number of walled gardens, cemeteries and private green spaces that are of some significance within the Conservation Area.
Close to the edge of the conservation area lies The Lake Pleasure Grounds (Town Park), the most important recreational facility within the town, formed in a natural valley around a man-made lake served by the River Were.