Category: About Warminster: Coldharbour Lane

Public Path Diversion Order ~ No.13, Coldharbour Lane, Warminster

From The London Gazette, 28th August 1973:

WARMINSTER URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC PATH ORDER HIGHWAYS ACT 1959, SECTION 111 COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1968, SECTION 31

The Urban District of Warminster (Footpath No. 13, Coldharbour Lane, Warminster) Public Path Diversion Order, 1973.

Notice is hereby given that the above-named Order (hereinafter referred to as ” the Order “) made on the 20th day of August 1973, is about to be submitted to the Secretary of State for the Environment for confirmation or to be confirmed by the Warminster Urban District Council as an unopposed Order. The effect of the Order, if confirmed without modification, will be to divert the public right of way being part of P.P. 13, Warminster, running from its junction with Coldharbour Lane in a general northerly direction for a distance of approximately 450 yards to a line running from its junction with Coldharbour Lane in a north-westerly direction for a distance of approximately 435 yards to its junction with the footpath known as Keepers Lane.

A copy of the Order and the map contained in it has been deposited at the Clerk’s Office of Warminster Urban District Council, Portway House, Warminster, and may be inspected free of charge between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays. Any representation or objection with respect to the Order may be sent in writing to the Clerk of the Warminster Urban District Council (Ref. KJF/H116), at Portway House, Portway, Warminster, not later than 25th September 1973, and should state the grounds on which it is made. If no representations or objections are duly made, or if any so made are withdrawn, the Warminster Urban District Council may, instead of submitting the Order to the Secretary of State for the Environment for confirmation, themselves confirm the Order as an unopposed Order. If the Order is submitted to the Secretary of State for confirmation any representations and objections which havebeen duly made and not withdrawn will be sent to the Secretary of State with the Order.

Dated 24th August 1973.
Alan Griffiths, Clerk of the Council.
Warminster Urban District Council,
Portway House,
Portway, Warminster.

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.