Writing in 1932, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, wrote the following note concerning Sutton Veny:
Five Ash Lane “in Sutton, was the road by which those who had taken out work to do in their homes (cloth making) went to and from the mills (at Crockerton) with the stuff.” (H. I. 129). From a bridle track it has become a road. Starting above the crossroads, it leads past the earthwork of Robin Hood’s Bower.