From a Warminster Town Guide 1971:
By 1866, as a gazetteer reports, Warminster was a place of substance. It was a seat of sessions and county courts and a polling place, published a weekly newspaper and carried on malting.
The report continued – “It consisted chiefly of one main street about a mile long with many good houses; has a head post office, a railway station, three banking offices, two chief inns, a town hall of 1830, a market house, a parish church of 1724, two other churches of 1831 and 1865, four dissenting chapels, an endowed grammar school, national and British schools, a house for training young men as missionaries, a literary institute, an athenaeum, a house for preparing women for home and foreign work, a cottage hospital, a free orphanage, a workhouse, a weekly Saturday market and three animal fairs.”
The parish then covered 6,370 acres, had a property value of £23,031, 808 houses and a population of 3,675.