Hatchet, The (at Market Place)

The Hatchet Inn, Warminster

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

The Hatchet
We are all familiar in Warminster with the General Post Office [address: 71 Market Place] on the corner of East Street and Station Road. This was formerly the Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank, built in 1852 on the site of the Hatchet Inn. The latter had been destroyed in a fire in 1789, having stood there since the 16th century. This part of Warminster was, for many years, known as Hatchet Corner.

Fire Destroyed The Hatchet Inn At Warminster

1789

A fire, in 1789, destroyed The Hatchet, a public house in Warminster. The Hatchet was on the corner of East Street and the road which later (1851) became known as Station Road. This corner was referred to by local people as Hatchet Corner.