The Urban District Of Warminster Official Guide 1957/8 noted that:
The first known reference to Warminster is in a document among the Canterbury MSS dated about A.D. 900 : “And Aethlem Higa went from that suit when the King was at Worgemynster, Ordlaf, and Osforth, and Odda, and Withbord, and Aefstan the Bald, and Aethelmoth, being witnesses.”