Bellagio Place in the suburb of Halswell, Christchurch

Bellagio Place in Halswell – Named after Bellagio, a village on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. Additional information: Named in 2017 by Developer Danne Mora Holdings Ltd. Pert of the Halswell Commons, Roads in these subdivisions are named after well-known villages in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Portugal or Italy or famous horses bred or owned and trained on site.

A small amount of information from the library website and I disagree that it was named after a village in Italy but can’t prove this. I originally walked this street in 2018 when geocaching in the area. It was too new for google maps or the library website. I also didn’t write up the streets that I walked as individual streets and just did one entry as Halswell Commons. I had found a council report from 2016 that had the street names in Halswell Common all being from racehorse names. I now can’t find this report online and it doesn’t look like I had saved the report which is annoying.

I was back geocaching in the area today and there are now houses here and I didn’t walk the street again as there wasn’t a footpath

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