Category: Bird In Hand, The [or The Cage] (at West Street)

The Bird In Hand, West Street, Warminster

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

The Bird In Hand (at West End – now West Street, Warminster)
The second inn of this name in Warminster is recorded in the 1801 Survey of Warminster. Its location is given as West End, and George Warren is listed as the owner. It probably adopted the name of the High Street inn (when that closed in the mid-1700s).

There is no mention of The Bird In Hand at West Street in Pigot’s National Commercial Directory 1822, so it must have ceased to exist by that time. As far as can be ascertained, it was on the site of a house known today as Westhaven, the former Orphanage of Pity for Girls at West Street. The orphanage was founded in 1867 by the Rev. Sir James Erasmus Phillips, Vicar of Warminster.

The Bird In Hand, West Street, Warminster

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

The Bird In Hand. The second inn of this name in Warminster is recorded in the 1801 Survey of Warminster. Its location is given as West End, and George Warren is listed as the owner. It probably adopted the name of the High Street inn (when that closed in the mid-1700s).

There is no mention of The Bird In Hand at West Street in Pigot’s National Commercial Directory 1822, so it must have ceased to exist by that time. As far as can be ascertained, it was on the site of a house known today as Westhaven, the former Orphanage of Pity for Girls at West Street. The orphanage was founded in 1867 by the Rev. Sir James Erasmus Phillips, Vicar of Warminster.