Category: About Warminster: Coldharbour

On The Last Day Of June 2015 At Coldharbour, Warminster

Tuesday 30th June 2015

David Jordan Hawkins has very kindly shared with us another of his Vermilion Studios film clips uploaded to Youtube. This time he has captured some of the nature of the Coldharbour area of Warminster which he witnessed on a walk today (Tuesday 30th June 2015). On what has been probably the hottest day of the year so far in Warminster, David saw butterflies and bugs, and the epitome of June ~ the dog roses in bloom. Sadly, this green and pleasant paradise on the town’s doorstep is destined to become part of the West Warminster Extension ~ planners and developers have got their way to replace the hedgerows and the fields adjacent the Were stream with bricks and tarmac. It will be a much wider urban landscape we will eventually view from Cley Hill and Arn Hill. To watch the film clip, which David has titled ‘Summer In The Warminster Countryside’ and which has a duration of 2 minutes 37 seconds, click on this link: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVRHR1FxvIQ

Our thanks again to David for recording the film and for sharing it.

A Pond And A Duckhouse In The Grounds Of Warminster School, Near Coldharbour, Warminster

Sunday 19th April 2015

A pond and a duck house to the north of the Warminster School playing fields, adjacent the Bath Road at Coldharbour, Warminster.

 Photographs taken on Sunday 19th April 2015.

Coldharbour, Warminster

Extract from The Changing Face Of Warminster by Wilfred Middlebrook, published in 1971:

The neighbourhood of Coldharbour was called la Goslonde or Gooseland in 1292. In 1609 it was called Coleharborow, but no-one seems to know what Coldharbour really means. I can recall watching a ladies’ football match in an East End district of London called Coldharbour. Over the bridge from the town are a few bungalows, then a row of four old cottages; the end one of which was at one time the turnpike cottage. The last toll collector at the Coldharbour turnpike was a Mr. Dicks.

There used to a pair of fine and lofty “monkey puzzle’ trees fronting one of the houses cornering Gashouse Lane, but these have now been cut down. Selwood House, taking its name from the ancient Selwood Forest, was once a private school. Norridge Wood is all that remains of the once mighty Forest Of Selwood, being the North Ridge Wood. Across from the turnpike cottages, Coldharbour Lane leads to Norridge Wood; at one time the lane ended at a knacker’s yard or slaughterhouse, but now there is a large modern barn and byre.

The playing fields of Lord Weymouth’s School are along Coldharbour Lane, and a “Public Footpath’ notice across the lane shows the way to the open fields and West Street, though one has to jump the Cley Hill Stream to reach the fields. Warminster St. Martin’s Football Club had their ground and club house further along the lane, with red-painted doors marked “Home Team’ and “Visiting Team’ at each side of the silver-grey corrugated iron building. The goal posts have recently been presented to the children’s recreation ground on the new Portway Lane Estate.

Qualifying Property: Cold Harbour And Brick Hill, Warminster

Electoral Roll : The list of Ownership Voters, Parliamentary Voters and Parochial Electors, for Warminster (Parliamentary) Polling District (Bb), Parish of Warminster, Wiltshire, 1894 – 1895, includes:

No. 178
Name of each voter at full length: Charles Henry White.
Place of Abode: Henley, West End, Frome, Somerset.
Nature of Qualification: Share of freehold land.
Description of Qualifying Property: Cold Harbour and Brick Hill, Warminster.

Occupation Voters (Division One) At Coldharbour, Warminster, 1894 ~ 1895

Occupation Voters (other than Lodgers)
Division One –
at Coldharbour, Warminster, 1894-1895
(Persons entitled to vote as Parliamentary Voters,
County Electors and Parochial Electors).

Name of Voter: James Steadman.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 1 Coldharbour.

Name of Voter: William Pearce.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 2 Coldharbour.

Name of Voter: Albert Butcher.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 3 Coldharbour.

Name of Voter: William Willcox.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 4 Coldharbour.

Name of Voter: Thomas Langley.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Land and buildings (joint).
Description of Qualifying Property: Furnax Lane.

Name of Voter: Edward Langley.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Land and buildings (joint).
Description of Qualifying Property: Furnax Lane.

Name of Voter: William Randall.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: The Woodlands.

Name of Voter: Alfred James.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 10 Coldharbour.

Name of Voter: Thomas Payne.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 11 Coldharbour.

Name of Voter: Emanuel Udal.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 12 Coldharbour.

Name of Voter: Henry Bosley.
Place ~ Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: 13 Coldharbour.