Wychbury Street – Named after Wychbury Hill near Hagley, Stourbridge, in Worcestershire in England. The Lyttelton family seat is Hagley Hall in Worcestershire. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge”, purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798- 1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817-1910). Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847-1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817- 1876). First appears in street directories in 1905.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add. Papers Past had ads for sections being sold in 1909 to 1911. In 1927 Odering Bros had a subdivsion approved subject to a strip of land on the northern boundary being available for a future Rd. Smiths City Market had a business here as well. Dated 1st June 1937 there was an aerial photo of the area.
The houses here range from 1920s to 2000 and most seemed to be wooden villas. Many are in the process of being done up. There was one Art Deco house. I would love to have got more photos here as there were some lovely houses but on a lovely Sunday morning the street was busy. So many doing DIY or mowing lawns. I liked this street. It runs from Lyttelton St to Barrington St.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 