Category: Black Duck, The (at Silver Street)

Thursday 1st November 2012

Issue 367 of The Wiltshire Monthly Intelligencer, for November 2012, edited by Michael Marshman, includes a brief report of Warminster Library’s 30th anniversary celebrations, recently held, including a summary of Michael’s talk, held at the Library, in which he discussed pub names.

Michael wrote: “Another rare name [for public house names in Warminster] is the Black Duck [which was situated at Silver Street], which may have been used as there was already a Black Swan in the town.”

Monday 2nd November 1987

Craven House at Silver Street, Warminster, is reputed to have once been an inn and its name may have been The Black Duck. This could have occupied the south-facing part of the building (the frontage to Emwell Street). On this side there is still a large entrance with room for seats in the porch. A stream (now culverted over) ran through the garden here, continuing on along Emwell Street (or Back Street as it was formerly known), to join the River Were under the south side of George Street.