Greenwood Avenue is in Laverstock, on the ‘pebble-dashed’ estate. The estate is to the right as you come into Laverstock from Salisbury.
I grew up on the pebble-dashed estate, so it’s particularly frustrating that I don’t know why any of the roads have the names that they do.
‘Greenwood’ could be a surname. Alternatively it could follow a theme of trees – an adjacent road is called Linden Close, ‘Linden’ being a word meaning for ‘lime tree’, or ‘made from the wood of a lime-tree’ 1.
The word ‘Avenue’ fits with ‘Greenwood’, in that ‘Avenue’ traditionally means a road lined with trees. However Greenwood Avenue doesn’t have trees, other than in peoples’ gardens.
