Cheviot Street – Probably named after the Cheviot Hills on the border of England and Scotland. Cheviot Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1896 in a report of a meeting of the Spreydon Road Board. First appears in street directories in 1902.
A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past has ads for the sale of sections in 1892.In 1896 there was a request for the drains to be inspected and in 1897 a committee was set up to look at inspecting the street with an aim to upgrade the street. I searched to see if William Robinson of Cheviot Hills had any connection to the area. He died in 1889 at his house in Park Tce. He also had several racehorses that were stabled in Christchurch but I couldn’t find out exactly where. This is a possible reason for the naming of the street but I couldn’t find any proof.
The QV website had the houses built in either the early 1900s or the 1970s and that would match up with the houses I saw today.. Lovely old wooden villas in mostly good condition or 1070s summerhill stone houses. There was a wee reserve near the corner with Meadowville Ave but it doesn’t have a name. There was a seat for sitting on. Will have to check it out for hiding a geocache once we are allowed to geocache again. As I was walking during lockdown I was mostly taking photos of teddy bears.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 