Templeton Road in the suburb of Hillmorton, Christchurch

Templetons Road – nothing on library website which surprised me as this road has been here since at least the 1960s. I often used to walk in this area when I lived in the area over 29 years ago. In those days the houses were only on one side of the road with paddocks on the other side. The houses on the older side are mostly brick and would date from the 1960s and the newer houses on the side where the paddocks used to be probably date from 2012. The new houses are mostly brick as well. This road is blocked off at the Halswell Rd end which is fairly new as you used to be able to drive into this road from Halswell Rd. There is a large kindergarten on the Halswell Rd corner. I suspect that this road is named after a family called Templeton who lived in the area. There was a John and Ivy Templeton and they had at least one son Isaac but Isaac died as a baby. My photo is from the park end. I found my information on Past Papers and Ancestry websites.