Chaloner Lane in Westmorland – Probably named after Sir Thomas Chaloner (1521- 1565). Chaloner was an English statesman and poet. The name Chaloner Place was approved in 1995 for a legal road cul de sac. The application was never completed and the proposed cul de sac became a private right of way. These are always suffixed with “Lane”. Becomes Chaloner Lane in 2001.
A small amount of information from the library website. I did find someone with the surname Chaloner living in Sydenham in 1890 but they didn’t have any connection to this part of Christchurch. There weren’t any family trees for this surname with a NZ connection. I also couldn’t find a place name in the lake district. I half expected to find some sort of connection to the lake district because of the theme of many of the other streets in the area. Personally I would like it to have been named after William Chaloner a con artist from the 1600s. I had been geocaching nearby and I didn’t actually walk this private lane. It looked like a driveway to just one house but there are apparently 6 houses here. Google vehicle must have driven down the lane as there is street view on google maps and the houses look rather large and they mostly date from 2000.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 