Thursday 2nd October 2025
Deterrent paving on the corner of Weymouth Street
and Upper Marsh Road, WarminstePr.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Thursday 2nd October 2025.
Thursday 2nd October 2025
The corner of Weymouth Street and Upper Marsh Road, Warminster.
Upper Marsh Road, Warminster.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Thursday 2nd October 2025.
Wilfred Middlebrook, in The Changing Face Of Warminster, first written in 1960, updated in 1971, noted:
A report in December 1908 said that Upper Marsh Road, where building has been going on for the past year, had suffered from a surfeit of names. The new residents did not care for the old name of Upper Marsh, and the Urban Council favoured Christ Church Road after the alternative suggestion of Southleigh Road had failed. One objection to Southleigh was that it would be distorted into “Sowleigh,” and the name of “Eastleigh” was suggested. Finally, the name Upper Marsh Road remained but we now find “Southleigh View” being used in the new Prestbury House estate.
Since that early house-building in 1908 there has been little change on Upper Marsh Road until recent times, but now a veritable new township is developing along this road, with the council estate of Ferris Mead and the vast new housing estate of Damask Farm.
Residents at Upper Marsh Road, Warminster, 1936:
Elim. W. J. Byfield.
Netherfield Cottages. Misses Hodges.
Netherfield Cottages. Miss Charleston.
Ranworth. H. E. Chappell.
Ilesbeth. Miss Fookes.
Bathurst. G. R. Langdon.
Melbourne. A. J. Davis.
Claremont. F. T. James.
Thornbank. Mrs. F. J. Wickham.
Killowen. G. Keepin.
Glen Lynn. James Rutty.
St. Edmund’s. Miss Stuart.
San Pedro. Mrs. S. H. Parker.
Marshlands. F. G. Bradbury.
Damask Farm. C. Wright.
Lydcote. E. J. Young, farmer etc.
12 Upper Marsh Road. E. J. Sims.
Windcliffe. Miss Saxty.
Wiwurry. H. A. Ingram.
16 Upper Marsh Road. S. C. H. Perry. Pearl insurance agent.
G. R. Langdon.
F. W. H. Lucas.
G. Culverhouse.
T. E. Vinall.
Netherfield Cottages, Upper Marsh Road, Warminster, 1926:
Misses Hodges, Netherfield Cottages.
Miss Charleston, Netherfield Cottages.
Upper Marsh Road, Warminster, 1926:
Misses Hodges, Netherfield Cottages.
Miss Charleston, Netherfield Cottages.
J. Chappel.
G.R. Langdon, Melbourne.
F.T. James, Claremont.
F.J. Wickham, Thornbank.
G. Keepin, Killowen.
James Rutty, Glen Lynn.
Miss Stuart, St. Edmund’s.
J.E. Cornish, San Pedro.
Miss M. Bradbury, nurse.
F.G. Bradbury, Marshlands.
H.C. Bradbury, registrar of marriages, clerk to Guardians, Marshlands.
C. Wright, Damask Farm.
E.J. Young, farmer, etc.
From The West Wilts Directory, 1921
Upper Marsh Road, Warminster
G.R. Langdon, Melbourne, Upper Marsh Road.
F.T. James, 2 Upper Marsh Road.
F.J. Wickham, Thornbank, Upper Marsh Road.
G. Keepin, Killowen, Upper Marsh Road.
James Rutty, Glen Lynn, Upper Marsh Road.
Miss Stuart, St. Edmunds, Upper Marsh Road.
J.E. Cornish, San Pedro, Upper Marsh Road.
Miss M. Bradbury, nurse, Upper Marsh Road.
F.G. Bradbury, registrar of marriages, clerk to Guardians, Marshlands, Upper Marsh Road.
C. Wright, Damask Farm, Upper Marsh Road.
At the Eastleigh Estate sale of land and properties in the parishes of Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny and Warminster, being sold (on behalf of Sir John Dugdale Astley) by auction by the firm of Marsh, Dawes And Gibbs at the Bath Arms Hotel, Market Place, Warminster on Wednesday 4th June 1884:
Lot 18 was a paddock adjoining Upper Marsh Road close to Christ Church, Warminster, occupied by the Revd. William Hickman.
