Boreham Down is so named, on the 7th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Category: Gazetteer
A geographical dictionary providing reference information about places and place names in Warminster and other civil parishes in the surrounding area.
Moothill Farm, 1783
Moothill Farm is so named, on the 8th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Pitmead, 1783
Pitmead is so named, on the 8th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Frost Acre Ditch, 1783
Frost Acre Ditch is so named, on the 8th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Old Fields, 1783
Old Fields is shown and so named, on the 5th Plan (map) which accompanies the 1783 Enclosure Award For Warminster And Corsley.
Part Of The 1782 Enclosure Award Map For Warminster Showing The Area Of Silver Street And Back Lane
Part of the 1782 Enclosure Award Map
for Warminster, showing Silver Street
and the Back Lane area.
(Back Lane was later renamed Back Street,
and later again it was changed to Emwell Street).
Meeting House Certificate ~ The Dwellinghouse Of William Adlam In Back Lane, Warminster
Entry No.333 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:
6 Jan 1773 (15 Jan 1773). Warminster. The dwellinghouse of William Adlam in Back Lane. Methodist. Caleb Daniel, Nathaniel White, James Bond, Charles Dudden, housekeepers in Warminster. (WRO D1/2/27)
Lease, Close Of Meadow Called Cowleaze With Two Parrocks Of Meadow Adjoining, Horningsham, 1679
WILTSHIRE
Horningsham
20 February 1679
Lease.
Close of meadow called ‘Cowleaze’ with two parrocks of meadow adjoining.
Counterpart lease from Charles SACKVILLE, earl of Dorset and Middlesex, Mary PAULET, Lady St John and Mark ARUNDELL, esq., to William PARSONS, maltster; rent 7s.7d.
Buckler’s Wood, Warminster, 1665
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Warminster. Buckler’s Wood is said to be associated with the family of John Buckler, 1665 (J.J. Daniel, History Of Warminster, 1879).
Emwell, Warminster – Place Name
According to The Place Names Of Wiltshire (English Place-Name Society Volume XVI) by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, published by Cambridge University Press, 1970:
Emwell Street (6″). Cf. Emewell 1249, 1394 Assize Rolls for Wiltshire (Public Record Office), Emewelle 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls unpublished, Emwell 1344 Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Calendar of Close Rolls, 1348 Calendar of Patent Rolls, Emwell al. Emble Coppice 1650 Parliamentary Surveys, Public Record Office. The forms are too late and indecisive for any etymology to be suggested.