Laverstock Park is an estate in the centre of Laverstock – it’s divided into Laverstock Park and Laverstock Park West. Laverstock Park is off from The Avenue, where as Laverstock Park West is entered from Riverside Road
Laverstock Park is built on the grounds of Laverstock House, which was best known as an asylum for the mentally ill run by Dr William Finch, although the grounds also included the land which is now the ‘pebble-dashed’ estate (Linden Close, Vanessa Avenue, Napier Crescent et al). Laverstock House was ‘distinguished as one of the first establishments in which the mild and social system of treatment was practised with success’1
Dr Finch went on to open the hospital in Wilton Road which became the Old Manor.
