Besant Place in Avondale and there wasn’t any information on the library website. This street runs off Orrick Crescent and the houses were built in 1970s so I was surprised that there wasn’t anything on the library website. I searched Papers Past and Ancestry website with no luck. It sounds like a surname but couldn’t find anyone with that name living in the area. Couldn’t find a place name to match either. The houses were typical for 1970s and nothing stood out for me.
Library information for a nearby street said that streets in the area were named after places or people connected to Isle of Wight. I found three brothers with the surname Besant. William was a mathematician, Walter was a novelist and Frank’s wife Annie was better known than Frank.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 