Heberden Avenue in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Heberden Street formerly Heberden Road. On the original plan of the Town of Wakefield 1874. Heberden Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1883.
No reason for the street name on the library website. Note this street is actually called Heberden Ave. This street used to run from Evan Pass Rd to Esplanade but it is blocked at Wiggins St because of rock fall from the earthquakes. One side of the street had older houses and again difficult to get photos because of high fences. On the hill side the houses were modern rebuilt houses but I wouldn’t like to live in them. Several empty sections where houses had been demolished and the land is no longer safe to build on. This is a very long street. The other side of the blocked road has Scarborough Park where the playground that I mentioned in Esplanade is. The park has boundaries on Esplanade and Heberden St.

After checking Papers Past and an Ancestry website I couldn’t find anyone with that surname in NZ. There was an historic house on Heberden Ave that was built in the 1850s by a Dr Burrell Parkerson. It is possibly that Dr Parkerson was an admirer of one of the two Dr William Heberden. Sadly this historic house has been demolished thanks to the earthquakes.