Information and pictures for locations in the parish of Warminster, Wiltshire, featuring streets, buildings, shops, views, etc.
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Warminster. Sack Hill is so named in 1727 (J.J. Daniel, History Of Warminster, 1879).
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Warminster. Elm Hill is so named in 1727 (J.J. Daniel, History Of Warminster, 1879).
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Warminster. Cradle Hill is so named in 1727 (J.J. Daniel, History Of Warminster, 1879).
Entry No.228 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:
6 Jan 1720. Warminster. A new erected house in Common Close. [Independent: Gunn 35]. Peter Lee, William Bayly. (WRO A1/250)
1718
36 Boreham Road, Warminster, features a datestone: ‘C.M.M. 1718’.
Nos. 5 and 6 Marsh Street, Warminster, were built late 1600s / early 1700s.
The Old House, 14 West Street, Warminster, BA12 8JJ, was probably built in the 1680s.
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Emwell Street (6″). Cf. Emewell 1249, 1394 Assize Rolls for Wiltshire (Public Record Office), Emewelle 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls unpublished, Emwell 1344 Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Calendar of Close Rolls, 1348 Calendar of Patent Rolls, Emwell al. Emble Coppice 1650 Parliamentary Surveys, Public Record Office. The forms are too late and indecisive for any etymology to be suggested.
John Halliday, in his Warminster notes compiled during the 1980s, wrote:
“The first recorded mention of the Market Place [Warminster] was in 1633.”
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Warminster. Brick Hill is Brickhill 1615 (Documents in the possession of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat House). Cf. Brickkiln Copse supra 36.
