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Meeking Place in Halswell – Named after Bishop Emeritus Basil Meeking (1929-). Formed on land subdivided by the Roman Catholic Bishop. Named in 2003. A small amount of information from the library website. Meeking was Bishop from 1982 to 1995 and he died in 2020 aged 90. I was geocaching in the area and walked …

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Harakeke St in Riccarton – Harakeke means: flax. Named to commemorate the Deans families’ efforts to conserve the native forest trees in Riccarton. The naming was also designed to showcase the Maori names of plants. Named in 1892 when John Deans split up 150 acres of the Deans Estate into 105 lots which were then …

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Jane Deans Close in Riccarton – Named after Jane Deans (1823- 1911). Jane Deans was an early Riccarton settler and community leader. Formed post-1997. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. There is a Wikipedia page about Jane Deans and it …

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Parkhouse Road in Wigram – formerly Part of Curletts Road. Named after Jaynie Margaret Hudgell, née Parkhouse, (1956-).Jaynie Hudgell is a swimmer who won a gold medal in the 800m freestyle event at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch. The section of Curletts Road from the expressway to Treffers Road was re-named Parkhouse Road on …

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Hillary Crescent in Upper Riccarton – Named after Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (1919- 2008). In a block of 28 acres bought by the government for state housing in 1953. The land was formerly owned by Pyne, Gould Guinness Ltd and was in Curletts Road between Blenheim Road and the Main South Road. Named on 10 …

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Mcalpine Street in Wigram and nothing on the library website. I couldn’t find any mention on council website either. On Papers Past the earliest entry was in 1963 where it is mentioned as a new street in the Railways Dept Industrial subdivision. It was named after John Mcalpine who was the Minister of Railways. Various …

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Jipcho Road in Wigram and nothing on library website or council website. I managed to find out how the street got name Jipcho from a media article in an African newspaper. Ben Jepicho was a Kenyan athlete who won two gold medals at the 1974 Commonwealth Games here in Christchurch. He was born in 1943 …

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Kilronan Place in Wigram and nothing on the library website. Couldn’t find anything on the council website about the street name. The street was probably developed between 2003 and 2005. Possibly named after Kilronan in Ireland which is a village on one of the Aran Islands. It is another street with businesses and I find …

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Tenahaun Place in Wigram and nothing on the library website. I couldn’t find out the meaning of the name but there was a property with that name in the Mayfield and Mt Somers area. There is also a track and conservation area with that name. I also found a racehorse with that name. I couldn’t …

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Pilkington Way in Wigram – Named after the Pilkington family. The source says the family has had “a long association with Canterbury”. Developed by Laing Contractors/Calcon Asphalt Ltd. Named in 2003 A small amount of information from the library website. I checked Ancestry website and the surname was more common than I was expecting. I …

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