Extract from The Changing Face Of Warminster by Wilfred Middlebrook, published in 1971:
This was once a paradise indeed, when rhododendrons and azaleas grew in a tangled profusion that defies description. These were cleared away, however, and during the War years the R.A.F. built a hutted camp among the tall trees of Crabtree, and made of Cannimore Field a sewage works.
The R.A.F. station at Crabtree was no flying centre, but merely a large collection of storage huts well-hidden among the trees; which were a supply depot. After the War the air force moved out and Crabtree became a re-settlement camp for Europeans exiled by the War, and many unfamiliar tongues could be heard in Warminster as these Poles, Ukrainians and other nationalities roamed the streets and viewed the well-stocked shops in wonderment. One of the huts was transformed into a church, decorated beautifully by the men in the colourful fashion of their distant homeland.
Now the huts have gone, save a few higher up the Horningsham road that Lord Bath retained for his own use, and sylvan Crabtree is once more a fitting terminal to the lovely lane of Cannimore.