Newspaper cutting, 27th September 1946, mentions that:
Ferris Mead, Warminster, built in 1946 – named after Ferris Ground, name on old map.
Category: Ferris’s Ground (in Warminster)
Middle Mead And Ferris Ground, Adjoining Upper Marsh Road, Warminster, Sold By Auction In Eastleigh Estate Sale, 1884
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 19 was ‘Middle Mead’ and ‘Ferris Ground’ adjoining Upper Marsh Road, Warminster, occupied by Robert Coles.
Ferris’s Ground On A Map Of 1835
A piece of land with the name Ferris’s Ground is numbered 17 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:
17
Premises: Ferris’s Ground
Occupier: John Lush.
State: Pasture.
Measure: 11 acres, 1 rood, 32 perches.
Parish: Warminster.