Butts Valley Road – Developed by John Flinders Scott (1876-1941). Butt’s Valley Road is first mentioned in the Sun in 1915.
Not much information from the library website. I looked up Papers Past and it has Mr Scott offering the council to develop the road plus plant a line of trees. Sounds like Mr Scott owned a huge amount of land in Heathcote, Mt Pleasant and Bowenvale. A pleasant wee street and my photos show the trees that were planted. I also liked what was in one garden. There was another house that I would liked to have got a better photo of it but a group of about 6 or 7 people came walking up the road.
I remembered that I had purchased the book Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills by Gordon Ogilvie and this book was a big help. The name is from the rifle range that used to be there and the word butt refers to the mound behind the target or the area from which the riflemen shot.The book also says that the whole valley used to be called Butts Valley and previous to that it was called Lee’s Valley after George Leslie Lee.
I just googled the meaning of the name and it is possibly from a French word meaning target or from a strip of ploughland that was shorter than one furlong. Apparently the name is common to Cornwall and Devon.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 