Lucknow Place in Cashmere – Named after Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh State in northern India. One of the streets in Cashmere given the name of a place in India. First appears in street directories in 1991.
A small amount of information from the library website and the Indian names for Cashmere are because of John Cracroft Wilson. He owned a huge amount of land on the hills here and had a history with India.
Most houses were built in the 1990s but some were built within the last couple of years. I was surprised that I hadn’t walked this street as I have walked the nearby Bengal Drive. When I checked google maps I realised why I hadn’t walked it. Most the street had been blocked off as there were 2 or 3 houses being built. I would love to have got a photo of one of them as it was an amazing looking house.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 