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Warminster| Market town in Wiltshire, southwest England, at the southwestern extremity of Salisbury Plain, midway between Bath and Salisbury; population (2001) 17,500. There is an army training centre and silk, gloves, and agricultural machinery are produced. |
| Warminster prospered in the 18th century as a wool town and corn market. A grammar school was founded here in 1707, at which Thomas Arnold, later headmaster of Rugby School, was a pupil. The town has an early 14th-century church. Cley Hill, an Iron Age hill fort 244 m/800 ft high, is about 5 km/3 mi west of the town, and the Elizabethan mansion Longleat House is 8 km/5 mi to the southwest. |
Warminster| Town in Bucks County, southeast Pennsylvania; population (1990) 32,800. It is located 31 km/19 mi north-northeast of Philadelphia. It is a largely residential suburb with a naval development facility connected with the Willow Grove Naval Air Station, to the southwest. |
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