Sharing Local Knowledge About Warminster And District
Saturday 7th June 2014
The view north-east from Cradle Hill,Â
Warminster, towards Sack Hill,
over Oxendean (in the trees, centre of picture)
to Salisbury Pain. Imber Clump on the horizon.
Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Saturday 7th June 2014.
Saturday 7th June 2014
The road to the barn and the trees on
Cradle Hill, Warminster.
Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Saturday 7th June 2014.
Monday 6th May 2013
Cradle Hill, north of Warminster,
as seen from Battlesbury Hill.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Monday 6th May 2013.Â
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Warminster. Cradle Hill is so named in 1727 (J.J. Daniel, History Of Warminster, 1879).