Aidanfield Dr – Formed post-1997.
A tiny amount of information from the library website. There is an information board in McMahon Reserve which is on the corner of McMahon Drive and Aidanfield Drive which has information about the name. The suburb and street is named after Mother Aidan Phelan and the council approved the name in January 2001. Mother Aidan Phelan came to New Zealand in 1886 and I managed to find out that she came here from Australia which is why I couldn’t find much information on Papers Past or Ancestry. It isn’t as easy to get passenger lists for ships that came from Australia. She was Superior at Mt Magdala between 1907 and 1920 and again between 1929 and 1936. She was named after St Aidan of Lindisfarne.
Also what isn’t mentioned is that going by old maps the portion of Aidanfield Drive from Halswell Rd to Nash Rd used to be part of Nash Rd.
There are only 32 houses here which seems surprising for such a long street but there is a huge amount of green space on this street. The houses were built between 2000 and 2021 with most built in 2010. Near Wigram Rd end there isn’t any houses but there is a large building saying Badminton Courts.
None of the houses stood out for me but a couple I quite liked. I did have a lovely chat with a local man which is how I found out that there is a boy racer problem.
I just can’t remember if Aidanfield Drive when developed always went through to Wigram Rd or if it stopped where the overbridge starts. The overbridge has the date 2011 on it. This overbridge goes over the Southern Motorway and I remember getting totally confused driving in this area when I returned from the UK in 2014. I left NZ in 2009 and only returned home for a couple of quick visits.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 