Category: About Warminster: Roly Poly Steps

Roly Poly, 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 Roly Poly:

Ser. 69
Parish number: WARM 85.
Name: Roly Poly.
Status: Footpath.
Length (m): 350.
Surface: Mixed.
Remarks: Concrete steps from the Park to the junction with WARM 47 then left along the narrow enclosed path to East Street. Consistently one of the worst paths in Warminster on this section with obstructions on the path, overgrown hedges and brambles.

Roly Poly Steps ~ The Lovers Walk ~ Warminster, Circa 1905

Roly Poly Steps, Warminster,
depicted on a postcard, circa 1905.

In those days local people referred to it
and the adjoining Roly Poly Lane as
“The Lovers Walk” no doubt because it was
the scene of many a romantic moment.

The producer of the postcard has added
an illustration of a couple of people
stepping out together, to emphasis
the name of the place.

The card is titled:
“The Lovers Walk, Warminster.”