Stoke Street in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Stoke Street – Named after Stoke-by Nayland, in south Suffolk, England. One of the Sumner street names connected with the Wakefield family. One of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s sisters was married to the Rev. C. M. Torlesse, vicar of Stoke-by-Nayland. Interesting information on the library website. Nayland St is nearby but I didn’t walk this one today. Stoke St had a mixture of new and old houses and the most interesting thing was someone’s fence. A local told me that a prominent volcanologist lives there. She said that she had a lovely old house but it was demolished after the earthquakes and now has a modern house but she does prefer the older houses.