In The Changing Face of Warminster, (1971), Wilfred Middlebrook says:
“The Avenue links Common Close with Station Road. Like Ash Walk this thoroughfare is still barred to wheeled traffic by stout posts, though there may well be an exit from the Central Car Park at some future date, land still being cleared across from the Avenue School. Few trees remain to give any meaning to its title, and the Avenue has seen several changes in the last forty years.”