Scruttons Road in the Heathcote Valley, Christchurch

Scruttons Rd – Named after George Scrutton (d. 1874). Scrutton farmed on Scrutton’s Road in the Heathcote Valley. Scrutton’s Road first appears in the Star in 1877 in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board. First appears in street directories in 1892. Information supplied in 2009 by Scrutton’s great-grandson, Stuart Vogel, in an interview with Margaret Harper.A reasonable amount of information from the library website. The first entry on Papers Past that I found was dated in 1873 and it was about a ditch being choked up. There were a couple of entries in 1879 about the road being formed. Couldn’t find much information about George Scrutton. There was a death notice for him and he died in 1874 aged 55 years old. He also was granted a slaughter house license in 1872. His farm was called Ashley Farm. I couldn’t find any information on ancestry website for him.The houses here mostly date from 2000 with a couple dated 1960s. There would have been big changes in the area when the tunnel road was built. I have travelled the tunnel road most of my life and can’t remember what it looked before the houses were built. I also travelled on the school train in the late 1960s and early 1970s and again can’t remember what it looked like those days.Nothing outstanding about the houses here and on the Tunnel Road side there is a small gap between two houses where there is a small reserve.