Category: Around And About Warminster

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

A Conveyance For The Methodist Chapel And Land At Bread Street, Warminster Common

A conveyance from William Daniell of Warminster to trustees of a Methodist Chapel (now building) and land in Bread Street on Warminster Common, with declaration of trusts for the Chapel’s future regulation, can be found in the archives at the Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN. It is dated 1827. The reference number is PR/Warminster Christ Church/1391/68/1.

Death Of John Ford, Warminster Common

Friday 25th November 1825

“Died James Ford, of Warminster Common, aged eighty-one. For eighty years of his life he lived without hope and without God in the world. He then was visited with sore affliction, and promised if God would restore him that he would lead a new life. Being raised up again, he came to our chapel, and there, for the first time in his life, paid his vows.”

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

To Let ~ A Most Desirable And Convenient Dwelling House At Boreham

Advert in the Salisbury & Winchester Journal, Monday 15th March 1824:

Boreham, near Warminster. To be let, and entered on at Lady Day next:- A most desirable and convenient Dwelling House, containing 2 parlours, 5 bed rooms, good kitchen, pantry, &c., &c.; with an excellent walled garden stocked with the choicest fruit trees, stables and gig-house adjoining. These premises are pleasantly situate about one mile from Warminster. – Apply (if by letter, post paid) to Mr. Jeremiah Morgan, Boreham. N.B. The London, Bath and Southampton Coaches pass daily.

Meeting House Certificate ~ A House At Pound Street, Warminster

Entry No.995 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:

4 March 1822 (11 March 1822). Warminster. A house in the occupation of Mary Gunning of Pound Street. [Wesleyan Methodist*]. Henry Young Cheverton of Warminster, William Gilpin. (WRO D1/9/2/1)

A Mad Dog In The Market Place, Warminster

Saturday 24th April 1819

“This morning, while standing in the Market Place, a mad dog bit two dogs within a yard of my feet, one on each side of me; he passed me twice, and then ran off and bit several more dogs and a horse: he was killed when in the act of leaping at Esquire T.’s coachman, Bishopstrow.”

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

Esquire T. = Squire Temple.

A Plan Of The Workhouse Tyning, Warminster

A plan of the Workhouse Tyning showing plot numbers and names of tenants can be found in the archives at the Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN. It is dated 1811. The reference number is PR/Warminster, St. Denys with St. Lawrence/2144/116.

Paved Ways And Remains Of Posts For Railings Found Underground During Construction Of A Barrel-Drain In The Market Place, Warminster, 1809

In Chapter XXXIII, “The Town Of Warminster,’ in his book The History Of Warminster (published 1879), Rev. John J. Daniell, noted:

In making the main barrel-drain through the Market-place in 1809, there were found pitched or paved ways across the street at certain distances apart, from two to three feet under the surface, and the remains of wooden posts, apparently used for railings lengthwise of the street and nearly in the centre.