Reg Cundick and Danny Howell, writing about The Royal Oak public house, at Chain Street, Warminster, in the book The Inns & Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
Both Daniell and Halliday listed this inn. Halliday gave the latest date for it as 1740. It had certainly ceased to operate by the time of the 1801 Survey Of Warminster, when it was recorded as “the late Royal Oak, Chain Street.” It was then a private house occupied by W. Randall.
The houses on the north side of Chain Street were demolished when George Street was constructed and the road widened in 1807.