Category: About Warminster: Chancery Lane

The Footpath Which Connects Robin Close And Chancery Lane, Warminster, 2025

Monday 2nd June 2025

Item 21 on the Agenda for a meeting of the Town Development Committee of Warminster Town Council, held at the Civic Centre, Warminster, on the evening of Monday 2nd June 2025, was: “Rights Of Way Volunteers. To note the update from the Rights of Way Volunteers.”

The Rights Of Way Volunteers presented a Warminster Rights Of Way Maintenance Analysis, which included the following information for the footpath which connects Robin Close with Chancery Lane:

Ser. 70
Parish number: WARM 86.
Name: not named.
Status: Footpath.
Length (m): 20.
Surface: Tarmac (pavement or tarmac path).
Remarks: A short link between Robin Close and Chancery Lane.

Chancery Lane, Warminster, 2025

Monday 2nd June 2025

Item 21 on the Agenda for a meeting of the Town Development Committee of Warminster Town Council, held at the Civic Centre, Warminster, on the evening of Monday 2nd June 2025, was: “Rights Of Way Volunteers. To note the update from the Rights of Way Volunteers.”

The Rights Of Way Volunteers presented a Warminster Rights Of Way Maintenance Analysis, which included the following information for Chancery Lane:

Ser. 31
Parish number: WARM 36.
Name: Chancery Lane.
Status: Footpath.
Length (m): 165.
Surface: – .
Remarks: From Woodcock Road a narrow path before it reaches “Chancery Lane proper”, which continues to Boreham Road.

Chancery Lane, Warminster, To Be Closed For Two Days For Highway Maintenance

Friday 8th January 2016

 Chancery Lane, Warminster,
will be closed for highway maintenance
from Monday 18th January 2016
for two days, 9.00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.
For further details telephone
Wiltshire Council: 01225 777234.

 Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Friday 8th January 2016.

Highbury Park And Its Environs, Warminster

Wilfred Middlebrook, in The Changing Face Of Warminster, first written in 1960, updated in 1971, noted:

Across Boreham Road from Prestbury Drive is another new estate that now opens up the way into Woodcock Road – the Highbury Park estate. Highbury was the home for many years of the late Major Teichman, but the house, now the head offices of the West Wilts Water Board, was built on the site of an old coaching inn called the Rising Sun. Coaches called here after passing through the nearby turnpike at Holly Lodge. The Eacott family owned this property in days gone by, with lands stretching back as far as the present railway, but with the decline of the coaching era the landlord got behind with his beer payments, and the land and property got into the hands of the brewers. Frank Morgan the brewer pulled down the old inn and built the present Highbury House, but the Eacott family name is still recalled by older inhabitants of Warminster. Chancery Lane, which borders the property on the western side and also leads to Woodcock, is still known by them as Eacott’s Lane. Maybe even this later appellation of Chancery Lane is the result of the unfortunate ending of the Eacott family fortunes.

Renumbering Of Some Properties At Boreham Road, Warminster

Some properties at Boreham Road, Warminster, were renumbered – effective from 1st September 1965:

(Occupier’s name listed here at the start of each address on the list of changes)

North side ~
M.R. Bone. 53a Boreham Road changed to 47 Boreham Road.
Arthur Russell. 53b Boreham Road changed to 49 Boreham Road.
West Wilts Water Board. 55 Boreham Road changed to 51 Boreham Road.
T. Mc. F.D. Russell. 55 Boreham Road changed to 51 Boreham Road.
Teichman Memorial Hall. 57 Boreham Road changed to 53 Boreham Road.
(Occupier not named). 59 Boreham Road changed to 55 Boreham Road.
A.D. Charlton. 61 Boreham Road changed to 57 Boreham Road.
D.J. Abbot. 63 Boreham Road changed to 59 Boreham Road.
C.L. Andrews. 65 Boreham  Road changed to 61 Boreham Road.
A.L. Burt. 65a Boreham Road changed to 63 Boreham Road.
S.A. Rix. 65b Boreham Road changed to 65 Boreham Road.

South side ~
A.E. Hurley. 60a Boreham Road changed to 62 Boreham Road.

All other properties at Boreham Road remained as before except Nos. 51, 53, 47 and 49 which have been renumbered into Chancery Lane; and Nos. 167 – 189 (odd numbers) which have been renumbered into Grange Lane.

Renumbering Of Chancery Lane, Warminster

Properties at Chancery Lane, Warminster, were renumbered – effective from 1st August 1965:

(Occupier’s name listed here at the start of each address on the list of changes)

West side ~

W.H. Brunt. 51 Boreham Road changed to 1 Chancery Lane.
D. Hudson. 3 Chancery Lane stays as 3 Chancery Lane.
D.E.C. Bower. 5 Chancery Lane stays as 5 Chancery Lane.

Mrs. E.M. Bower. 7 Chancery Lane stays as 7 Chancery Lane.
Mrs. C.M. Cox. 9 Chancery Lane stays as 9 Chancery Lane.
Miss N.E. Cruse. 17 Chancery Lane stays as 17 Chancery Lane.

R.J. Field. 15 Chancery Lane stays as 15 Chancery Lane.
G.R. Gray. 13 Chancery Lane stays as 13 Chancery Lane.
J. Crane. 11 Chancery Lane stays as 11 Chancery Lane.

East side ~

A.C. Polden. 53 Boreham Road changed to 2 Chancery Lane.
H.C. Corden. 47 Boreham Road changed to 4 Chancery Lane.
Mrs. I.V. Mathias. 49 Boreham Road changed to 6 Chancery Lane.