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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pitmead like this:
PITMEAD, a place in the S W of Wilts; on the river Wiley, near warminster. A Roman pavement, 116 feet by 10, was found here in 1786; and another, 19 feetsquare, together with baths and other Roman relics, wasfound in 1800.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Pitmead by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
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