Category: About Warminster: Reformatory School Path

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 about the Reformatory Path (also known as Reformatory School Path):

Ser. 1
Parish number: WARM 1.
Name: Reformatory Path.
Status: Footpath.
Length (m): 595.
Surface: Grass.
Remarks: Ends on Frome Road. Will ask Longleat if it can be extended slightly to end in Longleat Forestry (woodland with permissive access).

Reformatory School Path, Warminster, is recorded as Path No.1, in the ‘Statement to accompany the Definitive Map depicted on O.S. Sheets ST 84 NW, ST 84 SW, ST 84 NE, ST 84 SE, ST 94 NW (as modified under Sections 53 and 55 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981)’. 

In that statement it is described as “[In parish of] Warminster. Path No.1. Reformatory School Path. From the Frome Road, A362, at milestone ‘Warminster 2’, leading north-east and east to Folly Lane at its junction with path No.66. Approximate length 595m. Limitations or conditions affecting public rights: relevant date 6th October 1992.”