In Christ Church, Warminster, The First 150 Years, a booklet published in October 1980, to celebrate the 150th birthday of Christ Church, the Rev. John C. Day (Vicar) writes:
Among the many new housing areas created in the past few years . . . . The Ferndale estate with its several roads called after well known Wiltshire rivers [Wylye, Avon, Kennet, Ebble, Bourne].