Wood Lane in the suburb of Fendalton, Christchurch

Wood Lane formerly Park Lane -Named after William Derisley Wood (1824- 1904). Park Lane is first mentioned in The Press in 1884 in a report of a meeting of the Riccarton Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1900. Re-named Wood Lane in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named. Wood set up a flour mill at the end of this lane

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. This information confused me as I was only aware of the mill on Wise Street in Addington. The Cyclopedia of New Zealand and Peeling Back History has much more information about this man and the mills. William Wood arrived on the Randolph in 1850. He went back to England where he purchased a windmill to bring back to NZ. He set up a mill which was called Riccarton Mill. This mill had a fire in 1971 and was demolished in 1974. Girls High School is built where the mill used to be. The mill on Wise Street in Addington was an additional mill for him. Apparently the only thing left of Riccarton Mill is a weir and I realised that I took a photo of it without knowing what it was. William Wood is buried at Linwood cemetery.

Several new houses being built here and there were workmen everywhere. A couple of older houses here.Not sure that I would like to live here even if it is a lovely area as I think that you would be at risk of flooding.