Category: Bright Mead (in Warminster)

Information gleaned from an advertisement in the Warminster Journal, Friday 12th March 1920:

Warminster.
Sale of Freehold land known as Bright Mead.
Situate at Smallbrook, Warminster, and being No.327 on Parish Map, containing 7a. 1r. 29p. or thereabouts, with extensive frontage to the River Wylye, now in the occupation of Mr. F.W. Cross, at an annual rental of £21, no tithe or land tax . . . .

. . . . . will be sold by auction by D. & D.H. Waddington at the “Three Horseshoes” Inn, Warminster, on Friday evening, March 26th, 1920, at 6.30 p.m. Further particulars of the Auctioneers, 8 Market Place, Warminster, or The Solicitors, Messrs. Wakeman & Son, Warminster.

Electoral Roll : The list of Ownership Voters, Parliamentary Voters and Parochial Electors, for Warminster (Parliamentary) Polling District (Bb), Parish of Warminster, Wiltshire, 1894 – 1895, includes:

No. 75
Name of each voter at full length: Arthur Henry Wansey.
Place of Abode: Sambourne, Stoke Bishop, Bristol.
Nature of Qualification: Freehold Land.
Description of Qualifying Property: Brightmead.

At the Eastleigh Estate sale of land and properties in the parishes of Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny and Warminster, being sold (on behalf of Sir John Dugdale Astley) by auction by the firm of Marsh, Dawes And Gibbs, at the Bath Arms Hotel, Market Place, Warminster on Wednesday 4th June 1884:

Lot 11 was ‘Bright Mead’ in the parish of Warminster occupied by Robert Coles.

1838 Survey of Warminster

Bright Mead is listed in the Survey Of Warminster Parish, 1838. (Plot No.327). It is east of the Smallbrook Road and north of the River Wylye.

A piece of land with the name Bright Mead is numbered 86 on a map of the Eastleigh and Warminster estates of Sir John Dugdale Astley in Warminster, Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny, Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore. This map, dated 1835, is in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN.  (reference 3330/2L).

A key at the base of the map gives the following details:

86
Premises: Bright Mead.
Occupier: John Webb.
State: w mead [water meadow].
Measure: 6 acres, 3 roods, 31 perches.
Parish: Warminster.

A handwritten note about Bright Mead on the key reads: “on lives”.