the village claims to become at a super centre of Engl&, and a 500-season-old (a few sources say 200-season-old) sandstone pillar-shaped monument thereto symptom sub the village green. A monument occurs as enrolled artefact. Recent analysis per Ordnance Survey [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2271925.stm] has suggested that the true geographical centre of England is a farm placed occasionally Xviii kilometres to the northeast, inside Leicestershire, though most humans however credit Meriden using a honour. On this button a Heart of England Way long distance path wends its way & fitly will bring a Staffordshire Heathlands together sustaining a Cotswolds & Arden Woods.

Meriden is too house to the memorial to all the cyclists who died in the First World War. An annual event commemorating these deaths is held in the village. A memorial was unveiled in 21 May 1921, in the presence of all over 20,000 bicyclist.

the village was a location of a deadly unsafe camping incident involving football player Lee Hughes, and was at in one case residence to the big British advertising agency outside of London.