Mrs. Beatrice McClellan White (1898 – 1969), of Longbridge Deverill, writing in 1960 on the subject of Crockerton, noted:
In the old days the hills must have been very steep, as, especially Rainbow Hill, where the old road used to run can be plainly traced on the side of the banks, at some later date the top of the road was taken off and put into the bottom, thus putting, at any rate, one house well below road level.