[4] Warminster was named after a small town in the county of Wiltshire, at the western extremity of Salisbury Plain, England.

[5] Warminster, Pennsylvania was mostly settled by English and Scotch-Irish colonists after William Penn received a grant of land in the area from King Charles, II.

[4] It was the site of the Battle of Crooked Billet during the Revolutionary War, which resulted in a resounding defeat for George Washington's colonial troops.

[4] Warminster's Craven Hall is included in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

John Fitch and Steven Pagano were the inventors and designers of the model steam boat that was tried out on the Delaware river and successfully floated.

As recently as 1955, the township had no residential subdivisions and only one housing complex, Lacey Park off County Line Road.

The facility also developed a prototype "black box," best known as the indestructible recorder of cockpit conversations and information in the event of a crash.

Warminster Township is governed by a five-member Board of Supervisors, currently: Public schools (part of the Centennial School District):[14] Warminster Township's Recreation Services Division provides many events and community services, including overseeing and maintaining 420 acres (170 ha) of recreation areas within 13 parks.

The miniature town is sponsored by local businesses, who appear on the storefronts of buildings, and has signs and pavement markings to teach children the rules of the road.

SEPTA City Bus Route 22 begins in Warminster and heads south to Olney Transportation Center in North Philadelphia via Willow Grove.

[22][28][29] Electricity and natural gas in Warminster Township is provided by PECO Energy Company, a subsidiary of Exelon.

[34] Water and sewer service in the township is provided by the Warminster Municipal Authority, which serves 10,300 customers.

[35] Multiple groundwater wells in the township are contaminated with perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster site, leading to the authority having to close wells to install treatment systems to decontaminate the water.