John Halliday, in a hardback exercise book he titled Warminster Notes, in which he compiled various handwritten notes about Warminster and district for local history slide shows he was giving during the 1980s, penned the following:
According to the VCH, probably the second street of Warminster, after Church Street. The approach to the High Cross or Emwell Cross and the resultant market, along the ridge from the direction of Frome. Frome already a market in Saxon times and older than Warminster.