Category: About Warminster: Furnax Lane (Furneaux Lane)

Furnax 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 Furnax Lane:

Ser. 15
Parish number: WARM 15.
Name: Furnax Lane.
Status: Footpath.
Length (m): 823.
Surface: Mixed.
Remarks: Now a tarmac road with short dead end field edge grass path at the end.

Hettie Hen Scotch Eggs And More

Tuesday 29th October 2024

Hettie Hen Scotch Eggs are located at Unit 8 of Space2Work, at Furnax Lane, Warminster, BA12 8PE. Their amazing Scotch eggs are already well known in farm shops and at shows all around the South West. They began making sausages but having more than enough meat they progressed to Scotch eggs, That’s how Hettie Hen Scotch Eggs was hatched in 2018 and they have gone from strength to strength. They use only locally sourced free range eggs. Go along to their deli at Furnax Lane, where you can also find sausage rolls, pork pies, chutneys, soup, pastries, cheese, cake and more. There’s also barrista coffee. Open Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 2.30 pm. For orders, delivery and all enquiries, telephone 01985 620693 or email sales@hettiehen.co.uk

Website hettiehen.co.uk

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Warminster Town Council Recommends Refusal Of Revised Planning Applications For Victoria Road And Furnax Lane

Wednesday 18th October 2017

Victoria Road And Furnax Lane, Warminster: Plans Recommended For Refusal By Warminster Town Council.

At Monday’s meeting of the Planning Advisory Committee of Warminster Town Council, councillors debated revised plans put forward for dwellings behind the new Cooperative store at Victoria Road, Warminster, and revised plans for 15 small business starter units at Furnax Lane, Warminster.

Warminster Town Councillors had supported previous plans for a development at Victoria Road but the latest plans submitted were for four 3-bedroom and four 4-bedroom dwellings. This was regarded as overdevelopment and the plans did not conform to the Building for Life 12 principles that form part of the policies in the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan. Councillors recommended that the developers be asked to return to their original proposals.

Residents of Bath Road and Furnax Lane as well as town councillors had supported the original application for the 15 small business starter units at Furnax Lane because the developers had produced a positive site plan that respected residents’ privacy with the hours of operation reflecting the proximity of residential properties. The revised plans had asked for a variation on the original plans to allow for a proposed new cladding system and amendments to the delivery and operational hours to enable a 24-hour operation. It had also asked for the removal of condition 6 relating to the requirement of a BREEAM certificate. Residents were opposed to the request for a 24-hour operation because of the noise disturbance at night and the need for lighting.

Following a lengthy discussion, town councillors recommended that the delivery hours should be restricted to between the hours of 6.00 a.m. until midnight to reduce the impact on the neighbouring properties.

They recommended acceptance of the removal of condition 6 relating to the BREEAM certificate, but asked for all the original conditions to remain. 

Warminster Town Councillor George Jolley said: “It’s always good to see people coming to meetings to express their views. We always wish to take these on board when making our decisions.”

Carrion Crows Nesting In A Tree At Furnax Lane, Warminster

Sunday 19th April 2015

 The view from Stephen’s Way, Warminster,
to Furnax Lane, where carrion crows are
nesting in an ash tree outside the north-east
corner of the Civic Amenity Skips.

 Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Saturday 18th April 2015.

Furneaux Lane / Gashouse Lane, Warminster

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

Across the road from the Minster Church is Furneaux House. The Manor of Furneaux consisted of houses and lands “situate dispersedly over all the parish of Warminster” back in the reign of Edward The First.

Across the Cley Hill Stream at Coldharbour, after passing the Lord Weymouth Grammar School Swimming Baths next to Furneaux House, is Furneaux Lane, also called Gashouse Lane as it leads to what used to be the Warminster Gasworks. The huge gasholders remain, but are now kept at full pressure from distant sources; from Bath I believe at the moment, but possibly from the North Sea at some time in the future.

Gashouse Farm entrance is passed on the way, then come the old gasworks’ cottages, now derelict, and the two sky-blue gasometers at the end of the lane. The site of the old gasworks is now a County Council yard, and the lane ends here at a gate leading to the Warminster Refuse Tip.

So very near to the town, yet surely one of the loneliest spots in the district, this Bath Road approach to Warminster is beset with spacious fields.

F. & G. Sykes Ltd.

1968

Advertisement:

F. & G. Sykes Ltd.
Poultry farmers, breeders and suppliers.
Biss Farm, Upton Scudamore.
Telephone 3144.

Orders, Accounts and Advisory (Dept.)
Warminster.
Telephone 3451, 3092 and 3175.

Minster Hatchery, Gas House Lane, Warminster.
Telephone 3097.

Qualifying Property: A Freehold Farm At Furnax Lane, 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. 104
Name of each voter at full length: Thomas Charles Millard.
Place of Abode: 35 Boreham Road, Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Freehold farm.
Description of Qualifying Property: Furnax Lane, Warminster.

Living At Gas House, Warminster, At The Time Of The 1891 Census

Sunday 5th April 1891

The 1891 Census for Warminster, taken on Sunday 5th April 1891, records who was in residence at Gas House, Warminster.

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Number on schedule: 115.
Road, Street, &c., and no. or name of house: Gas House.
Houses: 1 Inhabited.

Name: George Perkins.
Relation to head of family: Head.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 47.
Profession or occupation: Gas maker.
Employer, Employed or neither: Employed.
Place where born: Wells, Somerset.

Name: Ann Perkins.
Relation to head of family: Wife.
Condition as to marriage: Married.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 46.
Profession or occupation: – .
Employer, Employed or neither: – .
Place where born: Wells, Somerset.

Name: Alice Perkins.
Relation to head of family: Daughter.
Condition as to marriage: Single.
Male or Female: Female.
Age last birthday: 19.
Profession or occupation: Dressmaker.
Employer, Employed or neither: Employed.
Place where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

Name: Henry Perkins.
Relation to head of family: Son.
Condition as to marriage: Single.
Male or Female: Male.
Age last birthday: 16.
Profession or occupation: Engine fitter’s apprentice.
Employer, Employed or neither: Employed.
Place where born: Warminster, Wiltshire.

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