Warminster (/ˈwɔrmɪnstər/) is a town and civil parish in western Wiltshire, England, by-passed by the A36 (between Salisbury and Bath) and the partly concurrent A350 between Westbury and Blandford Forum. It has a population of about 17,000. The River Were runs through the town and can be seen running through the middle of the town park. The Minster Church of St Denys sits on the River Were. The name Warminster first occurs in the early 10th century.
Population: 17,875
Latitude: 51° 12' 15.62" N
Longitude: -2° 10' 43.43" W
Brimsdown Hill (grid reference ST821391) is a 193.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. It is situated within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Bratton Downs (grid reference ST925522) is a 395.8 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971.
Bradley Woods (grid reference ST789410) is an area of woodland in Wiltshire, south of Longleat Woods and north of Gare Hill.
Blatchbridge is a hamlet within the civil parish of Selwood in Somerset, England, situated on the B3092 road from Frome to Maiden Bradley.
Blacker's Hill Chilcompton is an Iron Age hill fort 4.5 kilometres (3 mi) South West of Radstock, Somerset, England.
Bishopstrow is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the River Wylye about two miles south-east of Warminster, at grid reference ST893437. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 109, increasing to 122 in the 2011 census.
Berwick St Leonard is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The 2001 census recorded a parish population of 45.
Bath FM was a local independent radio station based at the former Weston railway station in Bath, England.
Barrow Street is a village south-east of Mere, Wiltshire, England. The name comes from the early Bronze Age bowl barrow at Barrow Farm.
Balch Cave (grid reference ST65734753) is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave is part of the complex of passages feeding to St.
Agricultural Showgrounds is a cricket ground in Frome, Somerset. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1882, when Frome played United Eleven. In 1932, Somerset played Northamptonshire in the County Championship, in what was the grounds first…
For the church of the same name in Derbyshire, see All Saints' Church, Lullington.
Wiltshire Music Centre is a 300 seat concert hall in Bradford on Avon and has been described as having ‘the finest acoustic outside of London’. The Centre puts on approx. 100 concerts a year including critically acclaimed artists such as Claire Mart…
Whorwellsdown was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, lying in the west of the county to the south of the towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham and to the north and east of Westbury. An arm of the hundred reached several miles southwards …
Westbury Ironstone Quarry (grid reference ST853508) is a 5,600 square metre geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1965. It was once an important source of Upper Oxfordian Westbury Iron Ore.
W/L Cave is part of the Fairy Cave Quarry group of caves between Stoke St Michael and Oakhill in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
Tytherington Down (grid reference ST912385) is a 5.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1975.
Turleigh is a hamlet in west Wiltshire, England. It lies immediately south of the village of Winsley, overlooking the Avon valley, about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) west of Bradford on Avon.