Category: About Warminster: Vicarage Street

The Duke Of Cumberland, Warminster

Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:

The Duke Of Cumberland, Warminster
Halliday records the Duke Of Cumberland inn being in existence in 1710 and 1740. There is no mention of it in the 1801 Survey Of Warminster, so presumably it had closed before this time. Halliday, writing in about 1830, tells us the inn’s location was then Edward Hinton’s house at West End. Hinton’s large house is listed as Plot No.185 on the Inclosure Award Map, and can be identified today on the south side of Vicarage Street, opposite The Minster Stores grocery shop.

Daniell mentions an inn with the name Duke William but gives no location. This may have been the same inn, because William Augustus, one of the sons of George II, was Duke of Cumberland. He led the British Army to victory over the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. It seems likely that the Duke of Cumberland inn may have been known locally as the Duke William.

The Black Bull, Warminster ~ Scene Of A Murder In 1820

Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published, in November 1987, stated:

An inn known as The Bull or The Black Bull, recorded in the 1801 Survey of Warminster, was situated at West End; the tenant being A. Whittock. West End in 1801 stretched from the Obelisk to Bleeck’s Buildings at West Street. The eastern part of it is known as Vicarage Street today, the other part being West Street.

An entry in Book 13 of The Parish Registers of St. Denys’ Church, Warminster, reads: “Patrick McKey (an Irishman) barberously [sic] murdered at the Bull Inn, West End, August 30th 1820, aged 49.”

The inn was still called The Bull in 1822 but by 1830 the name had changed to The Star.

The Duke Of Cumberland, Warminster

Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:

Halliday records the Duke Of Cumberland inn being in existence in 1710 and 1740. There is no mention of it in the 1801 Survey Of Warminster, so presumably it had closed before this time. Halliday, writing in about 1830, tells us the inn’s location was then Edward Hinton’s house at West End. Hinton’s large house is listed as Plot No.185 on the Inclosure Award Map, and can be identified today on the south side of Vicarage Street, opposite The Minster Stores grocery shop.

Daniell mentions an inn with the name Duke William but gives no location. This may have been the same inn, because William Augustus, one of the sons of George II, was Duke of Cumberland. He led the British Army to victory over the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. It seems likely that the Duke of Cumberland inn may have been known locally as the Duke William.

No.10 Vicarage Street, Warminster

John Halliday, in a hardback exercise book he titled Warminster Notes, in which he compiled various handwritten notes about Warminster and district for local history slide shows he was giving during the 1980s, penned the following:

No.10 Vicarage Street [Warminster], a class 1 preservation, is of brick with a stone stringer course.

The Convent, Vicarage Street, Warminster

John Halliday, in a hardback exercise book he titled Warminster Notes, in which he compiled various handwritten notes about Warminster and district for local history slide shows he was giving during the 1980s, penned the following:

The Convent at Vicarage Street [Warminster] sold in 1980. (Anglican nuns arrived St. Denys’ 1880).

No.34 Vicarage Street, Warminster

John Halliday, in a hardback exercise book he titled Warminster Notes, in which he compiled various handwritten notes about Warminster and district for local history slide shows he was giving during the 1980s, penned the following:

Vicarage Street [Warminster], previously part of West Street / West End. The 16th century timbered overhanging house, No.34 Vicarage Street (“Tudor House”) probably marks the limit of ‘Vicarage Street’ in the early 16th century. In 1325 (1525?) there is mention of a demesne in West Street.

Vicarage Street, Warminster

John Halliday, in a hardback exercise book he titled Warminster Notes, in which he compiled various handwritten notes about Warminster and district for local history slide shows he was giving during the 1980s, penned the following:

According to the VCH, probably the second street of Warminster, after Church Street. The approach to the High Cross or Emwell Cross and the resultant market, along the ridge from the direction of Frome. Frome already a market in Saxon times and older than Warminster.