Category: Around And About Warminster

Information and pictures for locations in the parish of Warminster, Wiltshire, featuring streets, buildings, shops, views, etc.

Warminster: Station Road Was Formed In 1852

In his book The History Of Warminster, published in 1879, the Rev. John Jeremiah Daniell stated: “The . . . Savings Bank . . . [at the eastern end of the Market Place, on the corner with East Street] . . . was built in 1852, contemporaneously with the formation of the road [Station Road] to the Railway Station.”

Deeds And Papers For Two Cottages Adjoining The Vicarage Garden, Warminster

A bundle of deeds and associated papers relating to two cottages in West Street [Vicarage Street], Warminster, to be sold to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, can be found in the archives at the Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN. They are dated 1794 – 1852. The reference number is PR/Warminster, St. Denys with St. Lawrence/2144/77.

The Skeete Household At Boreham Road, Warminster, 1851

The 1851 Census (Sunday 30th March 1851) includes:

Boreham Road, Warminster

Mary Skeete, head of the household, widow, age 71, female, born 1780. Occupation: Security on landed property. Born Barbados, West Indies. British subject.

Joanna Skeete, daughter, unmarried, age 36, female, born 1815. Occupation: Security on landed property. Born Barbados, West Indies. British subject.

Margaret Skeete, daughter, unmarried, age 33, born 1818. Occupation: Security on landed property. Born St. Mary le Bow, Durham.

Helen Cadell, daughter, widow, age 31, female, born 1820. Occupation: Pension from East India Company, service. Born St. Mary le Bow, Durham. Captain’s widow.

Walter Cadell, grandson, age 3, male, born 1848. Born East Indies. British subject.

Delomey Hamilton, granddaughter, age 13, female, born 1838. Born Ireland.

Ann Wilkinson, servant, unmarried, age 58, female, born 1793. Housekeeper’s situation. Born St. Nicholas, Durham.

Hannah Howell, servant, unmarried, age 45, female, born 1806. Cook. Born Mere, Wiltshire.

Emma Osborne, servant, unmarried, age 22, female, born 1829. Born Olveston, Gloucestershire.

Matilda Exton, servant, unmarried, age 19, female. Born 1832. House servant. Born Corsley, Wiltshire.

Four Deeds Of A Cottage And A Garden In Bread Street, Warminster Common. Parties: Orders, Brown, Middlecott, Lidbury, Axford, Patient, Kelloway, Goodman. 1809-1849

The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):

Four deeds of a cottage and a garden in Bread Street, Warminster Common. Parties: Orders, Brown, Middlecott, Lidbury, Axford, Patient, Kelloway, Goodman. 1809-1849. Reference 860/1.

Wiltshire Meeting House Certificate ~ A House At West Street, Warminster

Entry No.1728 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:

27 March 1849. Warminster. A house in West Street now in the occupation of William Bowring. [Mormon: WF 3(1), 34-35]. John Halliday of Trowbridge. (WRO D1/9/2/1)

Meeting House Certificate ~ A Room At The Back Of The Castle Inn, Warminster

Entry No.1707 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:

14 Feb 1848. Warminster. A room at the back of the Castle Inn, Silver Street [George Street], now in the holding and occupation of Philip Moss Westwood. Philip Moss Westwood of Trowbridge. (WRO D1/9/2/1)

Funeral Sermon For Benjamin Steedman

Sunday 2nd January 1848

“Funeral sermon for my departed friend, Benjamin Steedman, who died 27th December last, aged eighty-five years. His grandfather was among the first Methodists in Warminster: he had preaching in his house about ninety-one years ago, at Rehobath, Warminster Common. When a boy, our departed friend attended the Methodist preaching. He was a witness of, and a sharer in, all the bitter persecution of the poor Methodists in this town, in and about 1773. He afterwards helped to fit up the preaching-room in Pound Street, where, for fourteen years, the services were kept up, and where the usual reproach was shared. He heard the Rev. Mr. Wesley preach his last sermon in Frome, (I think it was when King George the Third was at Longleat) and was acquainted with all the old preachers that then visited this town.”

“There was a crowded congregation. And how marvellous the occurrence that I should preach his funeral sermon, nearly forty-seven years after the period when he first invited me to hear the gospel.”

William Daniell, The History Of Warminster Common, published 1850.

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