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Tea Tree Lane in Wigram and it is too new for the library website. It will have been named after the tree. It runs off Owaka Rd and this street wasn’t there when I walked Owaka Rd in 2020. I didn’t actually walk this street as there wasn’t a footpath and there was only a …

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Pistacia Place in Hornby – Named after pistacia plants which are a variety of shrubs and small trees. Pistacia trees were approved by the Christchurch City Council as a landscaping tree to complement the Little Gem magnolias which were planted on the berms of the larger of the two roads in the Magnolia Estate subdivision. …

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Little Gem Road in Wigram / Hornby – Named after Little Gem, a variety of magnolia. Little Gems were approved by the Christchurch City Council as a landscaping tree along the berms of the larger of the two roads in the Magnolia Estate subdivision. Named in 2015 A small amount of information from the library …

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Te Repo Drive in Halswell and too new for the library website. A tiny amount from the Council website – the original name of the John Miln’s estate. The meaning of Te Repo is wetlands or swamps which is suitable for this area. I wouldn’t buy a house here and it is potentially a future …

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Lochhead Avenue in Halswell and too new for library website. A tiny amount of information from the council website – Robert Lochhead is understood to have been an owner of the property in the 1930’s. I searched Papers Past and ancestry website but couldn’t find a Robert Lochhead living here. There were a couple in …

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Allied Road in Halswell and too new for the library website. A small amount of information from the council website – This is a name of significance to the family, as it is the name of the first business started by the developer’s father. The houses here were built in 2021 and 2022 but nothing …

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Dunning Way in Halswell and too new for the library website. Tiny amount of information from the council website – This is understood to be an area of Perthshire where John Miln was born. Ancestry website have John Miln as being born in a place called Forgandenny but this is only a few miles from …

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Grange Street in Hillsborough – Named after The Grange, the home of Dr James William Earle (1805-1878). Earle emigrated on the Randolph in 1850. He bought Rural Section 44, 50 acres, “Christchurch District, near Hills Road” (later Port Hills Road). He practised medicine in Lyttelton, later moving to Opawa where he built The Grange. Edward …

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Connal Street in Woolston – Formerly Victoria Terrace. Named after HM Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Re-named Connal Street. Victoria Terrace was named in 1884 when the Woolston Town Board decided that “the Cemetery Road, Princess Street and the terrace, from Mardon’s Road (Maronan Street) to Barton Street, (would be re-named) Victoria Terrace”. Re-named Connal Street on …

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Appian Lane in Scarborough and nothing on the library website. I couldn’t find anything on the council website about the naming of this street. The only Appian that I know is the Appian Way near Rome. I actually walked the Appian Way in 2016 when I was staying in Rome. I didn’t actually walk this …

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