Leaving East Street we take a look at Boreham Road where many of the houses were built in the early 19th century.

A Warminster town guide of 1924 described Boreham Road as the most modern residential quarter where an air of refined individuality surrounds its semi-detached villas, made pretty with gardens and a tree-lined footpath blending the rural with the urban.

Boreham Road should have been a fine avenue with trees both sides. Chestnut trees had been planted by one of the town's benefactors Mr Wheeler in 1888 from surplus funds of Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations However, when Lord John Sanger's circus elephants were en-route out of town, making their way to Salisbury, many of the trees were uprooted.

Today, the remaining chestnuts have been replaced by laburnums and flowering cherries making Boreham Road all the more colourful at blossom time.

Our archive picture is looking west toward the town centre in 1911.

The railings on the right of the picture are those of the non-conformist graveyard which was laid out in 1822.

In 1950 the graveyard was levelled and turfed and the tombstones arranged around the perimeter walls. One of the graves is that of William Jervis Stent who died in 1887. He was a well-known Warminster architect whose designs included the Athenaeum, Portway Almshouses, the former Wilts and Dorset Bank - later Lloyds - and The George St Methodist Chapel.

Boreham Road was at one time a turnpike road with Holly Lodge the turnpike house.

In the heyday of the town's corn market it was a common sight to see as many as 200 laden wagons waiting at the turnpike for midnight.

This way they could enter and leave on the same day saving themselves an extra toll. The turnpike cottage was situated opposite Imber Road.