Nayland Street in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Nayland St – Named after Stokeby-Nayland, in south Suffolk, England. Nayland Street was the original road to Lyttelton. 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. Nayland Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1877 when a property for sale there is advertised. Land in Nayland Street in “the Township of Wakefield, Sumner Bay” is advertised for sale in the Star in 1880. First appears in street directories in 1910.A reasonable of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the naming of the street. Stoke St is nearby. In Papers Past I found sections for sale in October and November 1877 and in December 1877 there was a call for tenders for the forming of the road. Sections were also available in 1906 and 1916. Both the Marine Hotel and the Masonic Hall were mentioned in 1940s. Found many ads from people looking for short term lets over the summer school holidays. This street runs from Heberden Ave to Marriner St and at the Wakefield Ave intersection area there are shops, cafes, library and a tiny skateboard park. This street still has many older houses dating from 1880 and most are in good condition. These older houses are gorgeous. There are a couple of the older houses looking very rundown. Houses date from most decades and there is an interesting curved shaped house from 1990s. There is a tall house from 2015 designed to get the best view of the sea. The street is only one block from Esplanade and I suspect most houses here would be well above my budget. The library on the corner of Nayland St and Wakefield Ave is only a few years old and has a foundation stone from 2017 plus the original one from 1907.