Wadhurst Place in the suburb of Burnside, Christchurch

Wadhurst Place in Burnside – Probably named after Wadhurst, a town in Sussex. First appears in street directories in 1960.A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name. There are only 6 houses here and when I walked the street on Saturday my first thought was state houses. The houses were all built in the 1950s and it took a bit of searching on Papers Past and yes there was a huge state housing development in the area. The area seemed to be mostly known as Bryndwr at that stage. The street didn’t really leave a big impression on me and I had diverted when walking back to my car while out getting clues for a multi cache and the street runs of Guildford Street.