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Mathias Street in St Albans – Named after Archdeacon Octavius Mathias (1805-1864). Mathias was the vicar of Christchurch and the commissary of Bishop Selwyn. Formed on land that had been originally owned by the Anglican diocese. Described as a “new” street in The Press in 1926 when the Church Property Trustees advertises sections for sale …

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Samantha Lawry Road in Hornby and it is too new to be on the library website or on google maps. I managed to find out who Samantha Lawry was and it is very sad. She died in a car accident in 2001 aged 12. The accident was on an icy road in the middle of …

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Schofield Lane in Hornby and too new to be on the library website about streets. I couldn’t find the council information but I found a wee bit of information on a different part of the library website – Typescript draft titled historical information in the Wigram area by W. Raymond Schofield, detailing the history of …

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Griselinia Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. It is probably named after a plant. I did check ancestry website as I was expecting it to be named after a member of the Dellaca family. As I started writing this I decided to have another google and found information on the council website …

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Agathis Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. It would have been named after a plant. This street wasn’t here last time I was in the area. I was checking one of my geocaches in Zinnia Park. Note it seems to be missing. The park was much smaller then and today I was …

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Ensete Road in Wigram and too new for the library website. It would have been named after a plant. Houses here were built between 2018 and 2021 and no photos as none of them stood out for me. Modern houses with lawns and a few shrubs. Footpath on only one side of the street. What …

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Hosta Lane in Wigram and too new for the library website. It will have been named after a plant. The valuation website said that the houses were built in 2018 which surprised me as I walked this area in 2020 and I don’t recall any houses here. When I walked Myrtle Rd and Brusio Drive …

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Dianthus Place in Wigram and too new for the library website. It would have been named after a plant. Houses built between 2020 and 2022 but none stood out for me. Footpath on only one side of the street and the best thing about the street was the walkway through to another walkway.

Snapdragon Lane in Wigram and too new for the library website. The street would have been named after a plant. The houses were built between 2020 and 2022. I didn’t walk this street as it was a private lane with no footpath. Weird shape for a lane as it was crescent shaped.

Lotus Place in Wigram and it is too new for the library website. It will have been named after a plant. The houses here were built between 2022 and 2024 and they looked OK but mostly just lawns rather than gardens. This street is next to a motorway and there is a tall fence between …

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