Coordinates: 51°12′32″N 2°10′47″W / 51.2090°N 2.1796°W / 51.2090; -2.1796

Warminster is a town 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 19,000.^{[citation needed]} 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.

The town was first settled in the Anglo-Saxon period, though there are the remains of numerous earlier settlements nearby, including the Iron Age hill forts of Battlesbury Camp, Scratchbury Camp and Cley Hill, the latter a site operated by the National Trust.

There are indications that a Middle Iron Age settlement may also have been situated just west of the town.

The town's prosperity following the growth of the wool trade in the Late Middle Ages caused the erection of many magnificent structures, including the Minster Church of Saint Denys, in a yew grove sacred from pre-Christian times, and including an organ originally destined for the then under-construction Salisbury Cathedral.^{[citation needed]}

Coordinates: 51°12′29″N 2°11′20″W / 51.208°N 2.189°W / 51.208; -2.189

Warminster School, originally called Lord Weymouth's Grammar School, is a co-educational independent day and boarding school at Warminster, Wiltshire, for students aged three to eighteen. It now comprises the Preparatory School for pupils aged three to eleven, and the Senior School for students aged eleven to eighteen.

The school's buildings lie in grounds which face open country on the edge of the Warminster town centre. The school has long-established links with the town and enjoys strong support. The Preparatory School is on a neighbouring site.

In 1707, Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, under the influence of Bishop Thomas Ken (1637–1711), founded a grammar school for boys in the market town of Warminster, near to his family seat of Longleat, to teach the boys of Warminster, Longbridge Deverill, and Monkton Deverill Latin, Mathematics, and other subjects of the usual syllabus of the day. This became known as Lord Weymouth's Grammar School - referred to locally as the "Latin School" - and by the 20th century was called Lord Weymouth's School.