Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
The Rev. John Jeremiah Daniell recorded the name The Iron Pear Tree for an inn in Warminster; so did Halliday, who stated that it was in existence in 1740 and was located at Pound Street, opposite The Pound – the old name for the area known today as Pound Row.