1865 ca, COVENTRY, West Midlands, GREAT BRITAIN: The MERIDEN HOUSE, Coventry. Meriden is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England. It is located between Solihull and the city of Coventry. The village has claimed to be at the very centre of England, and a 500-year-old (some sources say 200-year-old) sandstone pillar-shaped monument to that effect stands in the village green.From 1941, Meriden used to be home to the large Triumph Motorcycles production plant, whose Priory Street factory in Coventry was earlier destroyed by the Luftwaffe during World War II.