A geographical dictionary providing reference information about places and place names in Warminster and other civil parishes in the surrounding area.
Residents at Three Horseshoes Yard, Warminster, 1926:
Alice Sprake, 1 Three Horseshoes Yard.
.W. Blake, 2 Three Horseshoes Yard.
F. Webber, 3 Three Horseshoes Yard.
F. Coleman, 4 Three Horseshoes Yard.
F.H.G. Cornish, 5 Three Horseshoes Yard.
Mrs. Gilbert, 6 Three Horseshoes Yard.
J. Dredge, 7 Three Horseshoes Yard.
A. Withers, 8 Three Horseshoes Yard.
C. Collier, 9 Three Horseshoes Yard.
j. Parker, 10 Three Horseshoes Yard.
The West Wilts Directory 1926 gives the following details for Norridge Wood (off the Bath Road), Warminster:
Abraham Garrett, keeper, Norridge Wood.
G.H. Stewart, Norridge Wood.
Circa 1925:
Harry Ball, with his pipe,
pictured in the Gallery Bridge
area of Imber Road, Warminster,
during the mid-1920s.
Battlesbury Hill in the background.
In his Folklore Of The Warminster District, published in 1924, Victor Manley gives a list of 15 local words which he says are not standard English. Included is the word “druck’ which he confirms is “a narrow lane”.
From a list of items in Harold Nelson Dewey’s diaries 1919-1947 (list made by Percy Trollope):
Sunday 22nd June 1924
H.N. Dewey visited Norridge Wood and Cley Hill. Pyramidal bee orchid found.
In his Folklore Of The Warminster District, published in 1924, Victor Manley says:
“At midnight a spectral funeral haunts Bugley, finally disappearing down the lane at Blue Ball, a disused inn.”
Bangor Cottages was the name for three cottages situated between numbers 73 and 74 West Street, Warminster.
According to the West Wilts Directory 1923, the householders at Bangor Cottages, were:
C. Taylor, 1 Bangor Cottages.
A. Young, 2 Bangor Cottages.
Mrs Morgan, 3 Bangor Cottages.
Residents at Three Horseshoes Yard, Warminster, 1923:
Alice Sprake, 1 Three Horseshoes Yard.
E.W. Blake, 2 Three Horseshoes Yard.
F. Webber, 3 Three Horseshoes Yard.
F. Coleman, 4 Three Horseshoes Yard.
W.G. Cornish, 5 Three Horseshoes Yard.
H.E. Gilbert, 6 Three Horseshoes Yard.
J. Dredge, 7 Three Horseshoes Yard.
A. Withers, 8 Three Horseshoes Yard.
C. Collier, 9 Three Horseshoes Yard.
J. Parker, 10 Three Horseshoes Yard.
Bleeck’s Buildings was the name for the apartments occupying the former horse-hair furniture factory at the western end of West Street, Warminster.
According to the West Wilts Directory 1923, the householders at Bleeck’s Buildings, were:
M.G. Trollope, Bleeck’s Buildings.
A.G. Pearce, 4 Bleeck’s Buildings.
Mrs E. Hampton, 5 Bleeck’s Buildings.
W. Franklin, 9 Bleeck’s Buildings.
Mrs L. Sims, 12 Bleeck’s Buildings.
Residents at Obelisk Terrace (off Silver Street), Warminster, 1923:
Mrs A.S. Haines, 1 Obelisk Terrace.
A. Sapey, baker, 2 Obelisk Terrace.
G.H. Cousins, baker, 3 Obelisk Terrace.
Thomas Holton, 4 Obelisk Terrace.
Jacob Gay, motor mechanic, Obelisk Terrace.
G. Sims, attendant, 7 Obelisk Terrace.
Mrs E. Cowdry, 8 Obelisk Terrace.
Mrs F. Lancaster, 9 Obelisk Terrace.
H.J. Weakley, 10 Obelisk Terrace.
F. Burgess, gardener, 11 Obelisk Terrace.
Miss G. Alcock, 12 Obelisk Terrace.
