Grove Road formerly Park Road – Named after The Grove, the cob house built by William Barbour Wilson (1819- 1897) in Brougham Street – Park Road first appears in street directories in 1878. Re-named Grove Road on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Wilson was a nurseryman, businessman and local politician, being the first mayor of Christchurch. He built his house, the Grove, on 13 acres of land in Brougham Street in 1858. The house long remained a landmark in the district.
A reasonable amount of information from library website -This road has businesses at one end and houses at the other end. A mixture of new and old houses and most are in good condition. At least two or three of the older rundown houses have been demolished and townhouses built on the sections. At this stage there is still one empty section waiting for building to start on it. One of the flash new cycleways is on this road. I don’t believe the house this street was named after still exists. On a personal level I have had problems with being nearly run over when walking on the footpath here. There is one woman who totally ignores the road rules regarding driving and footpaths.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 