An 18th century Memoranda book of William Buckler of Boreham, Warminster, principally consisting of surveys of his leasehold lands, including the public house The Horseshoes, can be found in the archives at the Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN. The reference number is 2875/1.
Category: Three Horseshoes, The (at Market Place)
The Three Horse Shoes, Warminster
Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
The Three Horseshoes
This inn, on the north side of the Market Place, was open for business in the early 1700s.
It had a covered entrance leading to the rear and to several cottages at the far end of the yard, alongside a footpath led out into the Avenue. Behind the inn was plenty of stabling for horses and in 1867 it was licensed to let post horses.
In the 1800s Richard Collier and his son John were at the Three Horse Shoes for over 70 years.
The closure of the Three Horse Shoes occurred about 1968. A modern shopping precinct, built on the site of the inn, its yard and outbuildings, was completed by 1973. The inn itself occupied the site now used as a pedestrian entrance at the Market Place end of the shopping area. The development was appropriately named The Three Horse Shoes Mall.