Extract from The Changing Face Of Warminster by Wilfred Middlebrook, published in 1971:
At the foot of Pound Street we emerge once more to a most impressive change in the face of Warminster. Not so many years ago the lane ended at a junction of similar lanes – Brook Street, South Street, Cannimore Road and Folly Lane. This spot had the fanciful name of Broadway – but it had only three or four little old cottages, with a water tap in the hedge across the road.
Now there is a huge circular traffic roundabout where the cottages once stood, and the vast new housing estate of Broadway sprawls all across the countryside to the west. While the houses were being built, the recently formed Warminster Society For The Preservation Of Public Footpaths, armed with maps and a stepladder, tried to follow the route of a public footpath called Hayworth Lane. They scaled a garden wall and tried to climb the roof of a bungalow in a fruitless attempt to save the footpath for posterity. This was in February 1969, and now the Broadway estate, complete with its own shopping centre, successfully straddles the old Hayworth Lane.