Bunz Road in Halswell – this street is too new to be on the library website and I thought that the library would have added new streets with their recent update but they haven’t. Not impressed with the recent update to the street information on the library website. I did get a reasonable amount of information from the council website – the Bunz drain runs along the east side of the subdivision. It is spring fed from two or three springs within or adjoining the subdivision. The spring fed drain runs into the Cashmere Stream on the southern boundary of the subdivision and eventually feeds into the Heathcote River. Eels and trout live in the waterway. The springs are protected and will be planted with native trees. Naming the main entrance road, which curves to also run parallel to the drain, after Bunz drain will be a reminder of its origin and significance.
From the Ancestry website I was able to find a Denis Alfred Haydon Bunz who was a farmer living on Hendersons Rd in the 1950s. Denis’s grandfather was from Denmark. I couldn’t find a map of the drains in this area and I am sure that the drain would have been named after the Bunz family farm. The houses on this street were all built between 2019 and 2023 and they didn’t stand out for me but it looked like a pleasant street. I was impressed that there was a footpath on both sides of the street apart from the section that ran next to the reserve. The entrance to the street had the words Halswell Downs on a wall.
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