Category: Gazetteer

A geographical dictionary providing reference information about places and place names in Warminster and other civil parishes in the surrounding area.

Frome Grammar School, Leaver Members – Addresses, 1955

From Frome Grammar School Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No.2, October 1955:

Leaver Members – Addresses, 1955

Joyce Open, 2 Council Houses, Corsley, Wilts.
Alison Reid, School House, Corsley, Wilts.

Sonia Fleming, 34 Victoria Road, Warminster.
Jane Coombs, 53 The Butts, Frome.

Anthony Clift, 22 Portway, Frome.
Wendy May, Brewery House, Norton St. Philip.

Kathleen Applegate, 20 Ringwell House, Norton St. Philip.
Josephine Cross, 6 The Mount, Frome.

Jacqueline Badder, 102 Rodden Road, Frome.
Richard Burgess, 16 Silver Street, Warminster.

Margaret Nash, 96 Rodden Road, Frome.
Pamela Byrne, 93 Portway, Warminster.

Peter Austin, Critchell Farm, Frome.
Keith Derry, 19 Green Lane, Frome.

Kenneth Ledbury, 67 Keyford, Frome.
David Whitton, 18 Weymouth Road, Frome.

Valerie Lines, Shirley Cottage, Leigh-on-Mendip.
Wendy Clarke, 52 Broadway, Frome.

Rosemary Wright, 99a Boreham Road, Warminster.
Ian Wild, 84 High Street, Chapmanslade.

Where The Woods And The Lakes Are Exquisite

Geoffrey Grigson in A Gazetteer To Wessex, in the book About Britain No.2, Wessex, A New Guide Book With A Portrait By Geoffrey Grigson, published by Collins in 1951, noted:

Fonthill Bishop, Wiltshire. Celebrated as the place where the millionaire William Beckford built his neo-Gothic abbey, the tower of which crashed. Little of the abbey remains. The road, however, from Fonthill Gifford runs under a great arch along the lake made by Beckford’s father. Woods and lakes are exquisite. Careful search (enquire locally) will discover the Hermitage and Hermit’s Cave made by Beckford on one side of the lake, and his grotto and the caves of the Alpine Garden on the east side. 15 miles west of Salisbury.

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