Bewdley Street – Named after Bewdley near Worcester in England. 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). He and Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham and later Lord Lyttelton (1842-1922), and John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, all served as High Stewards of Bewdley. Rose served as a magistrate for the Province of Canterbury in 1853. First appears in street directories in 1953.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Not really a lot that I can add to this. Countess Baldwin of Bewdley died in 1945 so this is a possible reason why the name was chosen. All the houses here seem to be from 1950 and I double-checked one that looked more modern but it from 1950s as well but had been done up in a more modern style.Most houses on this street are made of brick. At the Barrington Street end there is a group of shops that date from 1960s and opposite the shops is a brand new childcare business. This has been built on land where a church used to be. One of my photos is of a house that is on the corner of Bewdley St and Evesham Crescent.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 