Category: About Warminster: Bradley Road

New Homes At Bradley Road, Warminster

From West Wilts Matters magazine, Issue No.9, March 1997, published by West Wiltshire District Council:

New Homes At Bradley Road, Warminster

In the September edition of ‘Clipboard‘, the magazine for the tenants of West Wiltshire District Council, a photo on page 3 was captioned “Boreham Field/Queensway Development Group surveying the land at Bradley Road where 38 new homes will be built by West Wiltshire Housing Society”. We must point out that this did not pre-empt the decision of the Council’s Planning Committee regarding the planning application, which was judged on its merits. Planning consent has now been given, subject to the Secretary of State’s approval.

Bradley Bridge, A36 Warminster Bypass

From Warminster And District Archive magazine, No.4, May 1990:

Bradley Bridge

This overbridge carries Bradley Road (an unclassified road) over the Bypass. The crossing is square to the Bypass and the road over is at an incline of 1 in 40. The deck consists of a 3 span continuous reinforced concrete slab with 1.7 metre wide side cantilevers supporting the service pipe bays and footpaths above. The deck is supported on integral reinforced concrete piers on reinforced concrete bases founding on Greensand approximately 2 metres below the Bypass road level. At the abutments the deck is supported on laminated rubber bearings on concrete plinths which are carried by an abutment capping beam and buried concrete columns and bases founding at the same level as that of the pier bases. The 3 continuous spans are 11.5 metres , 17.6 metres and 14.3 metres long making a total length of approximately 44 metres. Expansion joints are provided at each abutment. These are of the buried type consisting of a rubber bridging pad spanning a 30mm gap between top of deck and top of abutment wall with the road surfacing carried continuously over the joint. Painted steel parapets are provided on the outside of the deck which are designed to contain errant vehicles for this class of road. The embankments directly under the bridge are paved with precast concrete open blocks and grass seeded.

Bradley Road, Warminster, 1980

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:

. . . on the far south of the parish, in Bradley Road, known by older folk as The Tynings. Here on the left hand side [south side] was the old Isolation Hospital now converted into an Ambulance Station. The locals tell me there was an even earlier Disease Hospital or ‘Pest House’ as they were once called, in Cannimore Woods.

Bradley Road, Warminster, Was First Constructed By The Marquess Of Bath In 1792

Wilfred Middlebrook, in his newspaper serialisation The Changing Face Of Warminster, written in 1970 and published in 1971, noted:

Bradley Road runs along the high ridge above the Common [Warminster Common], branching off from the Shaftesbury Road [A350] at the top of Bell Hill; it is the road that Lord Bath was called upon to construct in 1792, leading to Crockerton and Shearwater. The Marquess also made a road bordering Shearwater towards Maiden Bradley, thus we have the Bradley Road.

The council housing estate called The Tyning now occupies the beginning of this quiet road, which winds its lonely way past the old Isolation Hospital, built in 1914 and now a County Ambulance Centre, and a new housing estate called Bradley Close, to Botany Farm and the wooded heights abov Cannimore.

At one time the path led straight along at Botany through the woods and across the Crockerton-Frome road to Shearwater, but now it angles round a field past the Crockerton reservoir.

Land And Allotments To Let

Thursday 4th April 1963

Warminster Urban District Council has to let, for 12 months or as may be arranged:

About 14 acres of land at Bradley Road, Warminster.

Vacant allotments at The Tyning, Warminster.

Enquiries, if interested, should be made to Warminster Urban District Council Office, 19 Portway, Warminster.

Warminster Joint Isolation Hospital, 1922

Warminster Joint Isolation Hospital, 1922

This institution, on the Bradley Road, is for the combined Urban and Rural Districts, and is managed by a Committee composed of representatives of the County Council and the two local Councils.

Chairman of Committee – The Most Hon., the Marquis of Bath.

Clerk – Mr. W.R. Marshall.
Office – 8 High Street, Warminster.

Medical Officer – Dr. Hogan.

Matron of Hospital – Miss Forster.