Thursday 11th September 2025
Nick Dombkowski has provided these photographs:
Nick writes:
“Today at Alcock Crest, Warminster. I took these photos . One set of flats has already been demolished. One more block to go.”
Friday 22nd November 2024
A potential buyer of a house at Alcock Crest, Warminster, who lives outside the area, has asked on the Facebook page Spotted In Warminster Town what is it like to live there.
The responses are very favourable:
“Lovely.”
“It’s a lovely quiet area with a good access to playing fields and dog walks, primary school very close and a nice walk into town.”
“I have lived there for 30 yrs and it’s been fab.”
“Its a lovely area!”
In Christ Church, Warminster, The First 150 Years, a booklet published in October 1980, to celebrate the 150th birthday of Christ Church, the Rev. John C. Day (Vicar) wrote:
Alcock Crest . . . named after Charles Alcock. a Victorian Headmaster of the Lord Weymouth Grammar School. This gentleman left land in the vicinity for a children’s play area. When the site was built over the local authority created in its place the present recreation ground in Fore Street. Where the flats are sited now [at Alcock Crest] was once called ‘The Hanging’. Nothing to do with executions, rather land sloping down a steep hillside.
February 1975
Pianos tuned.
Barry E. Mole, M.P.T.A.
Tuner technician.
88 Alcock Crest, Warminster.
Phone 2671.
Wilfred Middlebrook, in The Changing Face Of Warminster, first written in 1960, updated in 1971, noted:
Another facet of this changing face of Warminster is to be found at Alcock Crest, now also leading to a new housing estate (called Hill View during construction) now being built behind and alongside the hospital. This estate perpetuates the “Bishop of Warminster Common” with the name of Daniell Crest.
Alcock Crest has already been mentioned, and there is a tablet across the road from this new entry that is inscribed as follows: ‘This estate was named Alcock Crest to commemorate the gift to the town in 1911 by Charles Alcock, M.A., Ph.D., Headmaster of Lord Weymouth’s Grammar School from 1865 to 1895. Of the 3.358 acres of land on which Nos.1 to 22 and 84 to 101 now stand, for the use of the Pound Street Recreation Ground. In substitution for which a field adjacent to Fore Street below was laid out in 1950 and is now dedicated for ever as a children’s pleasure ground.’
The local authority (council) houses at Alcock Crest, Warminster, were built 1953-1955 (first phase) and 1958 (second phase). (Houses erected under the 1946 Housing Act).
