Market Place [Warminster] is so named, on the 6th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Category: Around And About Warminster
Information and pictures for locations in the parish of Warminster, Wiltshire, featuring streets, buildings, shops, views, etc.
Silver Street, Warminster, 1783
Silver Street [Warminster] is so named, on the 6th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Sack Hill, 1783
Sack Hill is so named, on the 6th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Brick Hill, 1783
Brick Hill is so named, on the 2nd Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Henfords Marsh, 1783
Henfords Marsh is named on the 5th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Boreham, 1783
Boreham is named on the 5th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Cottages At Portway, Warminster, In 1783
The chapter on Warminster in A History Of The County Of Wiltshire, Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury And Whorwellsdown Hundreds, originally published by Victoria County History, 1965, mentions that:
In 1783 cottages, some evidently built on waste at the side of the road, extended sporadically along Portway as far as the bottom of Elm Hill.
Broadway, Warminster, In 1780
Broadway is shown and named as such, on a manuscript map of Warminster and surrounding area, showing fields prior to enclosure, 1780.
The Chantry, Warminster, Was Built Circa 1750-1760
The Chantry, 34 High Street, Warminster, BA12 9AF, was built circa 1750 – 1760 and is probably the work of a Longleat Estate surveyor or architect.
Pound Street Improvements, Warminster
The Rev. John J. Daniell, in the book The History Of Warminster, published in 1879, noted:
The same year [1759] the hollow channel in Pound-street was filled up and levelled. In the autumn a new road was cut to the Common, the old, narrow, deep, winding lane being abandoned.