Victor Manley, in his Regional Survey Of The Warminster District, Volume Five, compiled in the 1920s and 1930s, listed and attempted to explain the meaning of several local place names.
He included the Furlong in his list, writing that it was “a lane with cottages from East End House to Fairfield Road.”
He went on to state that a furlong is “Not necessarily land of an eighth of an acre but a place name often where under the field system of village communities there were groups of strips naturally connected.” He added that “along the heads of the strips ran vacant lands used for turning the plough.”