Category: Agriculture: Farm: Warminster, Damask Farm

Information and pictures about Damask Farm, Warminster.

Damask Way, Warminster ~ Named After Damask Farm

The Reverend John Day, in his booklet Christ Church, The First 150 Years, written in 1980, confirmed that Damask Way took its name from Damask Farm, the houses having been built on the farm’s fields. The Reverend Day mentioned that “The old farm house still stands in Upper Marsh Road.”

Negotiating The Path On The Damask Farm Estate

Wilfred Middlebrook, in The Changing Face Of Warminster (first written in 1960), updated in 1971:

. . . [the path] . . . on the new Damask Farm estate, one has now to negotiate the houses to regain the original path.

Damask Farm, Warminster

Victor Manley, in his Regional Survey Of The Warminster District, Volume Five, compiled in the 1920s and 1930s, listed and attempted to explain the meaning of several local place names. He included Damask Farm in his list, giving its location as “Upper Marsh Road” and saying it [presumably the farmhouse] was “built by Dr Alcock.” Manley concludes by asking “Was it the demesne or home farm of Sambourne Manor at some time?”

Parish Of Warminster, Division One, Occupation Voters (Other Than Lodgers), 1899: Damask Farm

1899.
Warminster (Parliamentary) Polling District (Bb). Warminster County Electoral Polling District. Parish of Warminster. Occupation Voters (other than Lodgers). Division One. Persons entitled to Vote as Parliamentary Voters,. County Electors, and Parochial Electors.

Damask Farm

No. Bb650
Name of each Voter: Miles Parsons.
Place of Abode: Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: dwelling house.
Description of Qualifying Property: Damask Farm.