Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
The Hart And Compass
Halliday says this inn was operating in 1740 and gives it location at West End, Warminster [the area we know today as Vicarage Street]. Daniell fails to mention it, so perhaps, when he was writing (1870s), it could have existed with another name. This suggestion is plausible when you take into consideration that we know many of Warminster’s other inns have changed names at different periods. A lack of documentary evidence prevents exact location of The Hart And Compass inn.