Cheltenham Street in Merivale – formerly Regent Street. Named after Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, England. Regent Street first appears in street directories in 1890. Re-named Cheltenham Street in 1909. One of a number of streets in the area named after English public schools.
A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past didn’t say how the street got the name. It could have been named the town Cheltenham and there are actually two colleges with the Cheltenham name. The reason for the name change from Regent St is that there was also a Regent St in Woolston. The name change was recorded in Papers Past in 1909 and 1924. Not a lot of information in Papers Past. A few death notices and in 1934 there was a complaint about dust from the road. There were sections for sale in 1890. Most houses on this street were built between 2017 and 2022 but there are still two houses from 1920. Many of the modern houses are ugly but I did love a house built in 1920.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 