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Ensors Road in Waltham and Opawa – formerly Ensor’s Road. Named after Edmund Henry Ensor (1840-1884).Ensor arrived in Canterbury in 1860 on the William Miles. At different times he shared ownership of several farms, worked as a land and estate agent and part-owned a flax mill. He is listed in street directories in 1864 living …

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Isabella Place in Waltham – formerly part of Ensors Road. Named after Isabella Maria Ensor, née Le Fleming, (1830?-1900) Isabella Ensor was the wife of Edmund Henry Ensor (1840-1884). Their daughter, also named Isabella, died aged 7 months in 1865. Named in 1975. A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had …

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William Massey Courts in Waltham. Technically this lane is at 182 Ensors Road and it is social housing here. There are 14 units built in 1975. Papers Past only had a few death notices for this lane. There is a Wikipedia page for William Massey.

Flaxwood Lane in Waltham and nothing on the library website. I checked Ancestry website, cemetery records and Papers Past and it isn’t a surname. There are 17 houses here all built in the 1980s. The ads on Papers Past from 1986 describe them as luxury homes.

Kahukura Rd and nothing on the library website. This street couldn’t decide if it was in Hei Hei or Broomfield. The valuation website only showed one house built in 2020 yet there are at least 4 other houses probably built in the 1980s. Looking at street view it looks like the street has been extended …

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Zenith Place in Hei Hei and nothing on the library website. This was surprising as most of the houses date from 1980 with one house from 1950. It was probably named after a racehorse. Papers Past had several ads for sections in 1980 plus there were a couple of death notices. Nothing outstanding about the …

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Piripiri Place in Broomfield and nothing on the library website. Street was probably named after the plant piripiri which is better known as biddy bid. The houses here were built between 2020 and 2023 and they all looked exactly the same. The footpath was on only one side of the street but at least there …

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Miromiro Street in Broomfield and no information on the library website. I couldn’t find a racehorse with that name so the street must be named after the bird. There are 64 houses here built between 2020 and 2023. All that I will say about the houses is remember the words from a song which goes …

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Musket Lane in Broomfield and no information on the library website. Most of the houses were built in 2020 and I suspect that the street was named after a racehorse. It did have a footpath but I was unable to walk it because of all the cars parked on the footpath. We all know how …

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Koral Lane in Broomfield and there isn’t any information on the library website for this street. I suspect that the street is named after a racehorse. Houses here were built between 2020 and 2022 and from what I could see the houses all looked exactly the same. The street did have a footpath but it …

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