1957
The Urban District Of Warminster Official Guide 1957/8 noted that:
“Woodhouse” farm to the south-west of the mansion [Longleat House] is all that is left of what was once a castellated mansion of the Vernons. It was besieged during the Civil War, stubbornly defended by Major Wansey (a member of the famous Warminster family of cloth merchants) but captured by the Royalist leader, Sir Francis Doddington. An attempt by Edmund Ludlow to relieve Wansey led to the skirmish on Warminster Heath from which Ludlow was chased across the downs to Salisbury. Doddington hanged twelve of the Roundhead garrison on a giant oak in front of the house. A rough hillock marks the “Clothier’s Grave.”