Category: About Warminster: Highbury Park

Boreham 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 Boreham Lane:

Ser. 30
Parish number: WARM 35.
Name: Boreham Lane.
Status: Footpath.
Length (m): 500.
Surface: Metalled.
Remarks: From Boreham Road via a narrow track to Highbury Park where it becomes a pavement through to Woodcock Road.

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.