There is no information on who promoted the Society, but the trustees and directors were local businessmen with strong nonconformist connections.
In discussing the inter-war period, the official history reported that there was "no apparent real desire or conscious effort to expand its operations", although there was a reference to agents in Reading in 1933 and Oxford in 1939.
The expansion of the private housing market combined with inflation took assets over £1m after World War II, and from then the Ramsbury began to grow.
By end of 1960s branches had been opened at Marlborough (1960), Swindon (1961), Newbury and Chippenham (1963), Andover (1966), Trowbridge (1967), and Salisbury and Devizes in 1970.
The Ramsbury's official history ends at this point: 1981 saw the foundation stone laid for a new headquarters in the larger town of Marlborough; assets stood at £106m and the branch network at 22.
The Western Counties was based in Bideford,[2] and it must have been of reasonable size as the Ramsbury was renamed the West of England Building Society.