Buxton Tce in St Martins- formerly part of Rata Street. Named after Alfred William Buxton (1872-1950). Buxton was a landscape gardener and nurseryman. He ran a nursery in St Martins 1902-1925, at first called Premier Nursery and later the Opawa Nursery. It was situated on nearly 18 acres of land to the east of the Heathcote River and to the north and south of what is now known as Buxton Terrace. Named in 1926. First appears in street directories in 1928.
A small amount of information from the library website. A few mentions on Papers Past and in 1926 the Heathcote County Council altered Rata St to Buxton Terrace. This article didn’t mention that it was only part of Rata St in St Martins. I ended up checking several older maps and it isn’t on maps for 1912 or 1922 but is Rata St in 1930 map and Buxton in 1940 map. After checking these maps with a modern map the rest of Rata street in St Martins is now Koromiko St. Alfred Buxton put his business into voluntary liquidation in 1926 and then took up landscaping with his older son. It is likely that this is when sections were sold for housing. I actually walked this street in August 2021 and it looked like a pleasant street. Most houses were built in 1990s and 2000s but there are a couple of houses from 1920 and 1930.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 