Category: About Warminster: Sack Hill

The Disused Vedette Post (VP 2) At Sack Hill, Warminster

Saturday 22nd August 2015

 The disused vedette post, VP 2, adjacent Harman Lines, Sack Hill, Warminster.

 It was replaced a few years ago by a new vedette post a few yards further along the road to Imber.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Saturday 22nd August 2015.

The Northern Part Of Warminster In The Rain

Sunday 10th August 2014

View from Sack Hill, of the Warminster Land Warfare Centre off Imber Road, Roberts Road, and the Elm Hill area in the rain and the greyness. Copheap and Arn Hill form the horizon. Photograph taken by Danny Howell on Sunday 10th August 2014.

The Mancombe Ghost

Victor Strode Manley, in Volume 10 of his Regional Survey of the Warminster District, compiled in the 1920s and 1930s, includes the following note:

Narrator: Mr. Foreman, West Street, Warminster. April 1931.
Re-told by R. Davis.

He worked as a shepherd until lately on Mr. Stiles’ Farm on Warminster Down. No one could be got to remain in the farmhouse because it was said to be haunted. The crockery rattled and fell, doors shut of their own account and were only opened afterwards with difficulty, so it was demolished.

(Query – Was this the same place as mentioned in the tale of the haunted sheepskin?)

Some years ago he took a flock of sheep from there to Tilshead, and returned via Imber, where he had a pint at night. When he reached the foot of Sack Hill, a white form came from the direction of Battlesbury, but it had no definite form. It stood in the middle of the road in front of him and remained there until his near approach, when it glided into a copse at the side of the road. There was no wind but a rustling sound came from the copse.

The same thing happened to him on another occasion.