Meyrick Avenue is to the south of Salisbury. It runs between Bouverie Avenue and the Blandford Road.
I’ve not been able to find any possible derivations for the name of Meyrick Avenue. Bouverie Avenue’s name is a reference to the Pleydell-Bouveries who are the Earls of Radnor. It’s possible that there’s some connection between the name ‘Meyrick’ and the Pleydell-Bouveries – there isn’t a great deal of Google-able information about them, so I may have missed a ‘Meyrick’ in the family.
The Victoria County History of Salisbury tells us that:
Apart from the Alderbury Union workhouse (now Meyrick Close) near the Odstock road built in 1878, (fn. 27) little building took place south of the Avon before 1900(1)
I don’t know whether Meyrick Close is related to Meyrick Avenue.
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Footnotes
- Salisbury: The expansion of the city; Milford’, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 90-93. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41789 Date accessed: 07 November 2009. > [↩]
