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Ferrymead Park Drive – Named in 1999. A tiny amount of information from library website. The Council are constructing a new road which will provide improved access to Ferrymead Historic Park from Bridle Path Road. The new road runs from Bridle Path Road in to the existing Truscotts Road. Parts of Truscott Road are to …

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Truscotts Rd in Heathcote- Formerly Albert Street. May have been named after Albert Charles Truscott (1838?- 1910). Re-named Truscotts Road. Named after Frederick Truscott (1874- 1945) and his wife, Selina Truscott, née Keast, (1875?- 1961). Frederick Truscott, a saddler, was a resident of Pawaho Hamlet in Heathcote in 1905. He farmed Truscott’s Farm, Moncks Spur, …

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Deavoll Place in Heathcote – Named after Daniel Deavoll (1858?-1929). Deavoll was a carpenter who lived at 123 Bridle Path Road. He named his son, Daniel Stanley Heathcote Deavoll (1898-1974). The family’s fourth generation was still resident in the Heathcote Valley at the time the street was named in 2003. A small amount of information …

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Stead Lane in Heathcote – Named after George Gatonby Stead, owner of G G Stead & Co. George Gatonby Stead (1841 – 1908) founded the company G G Stead and Co in 1871, and purchased the Maltworks in 1875. George was a notable grain merchant, racehorse owner and breeder and businessman. Additional information: Date Named: …

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Cordelia Lane in Heathcote – Named after the ketch, Cordelia. The Cordelia was a ketch sailed by Captain James Hines (1836?-1920). The Shipping News in The Lyttelton Times in 1868-1869 refers to voyages made by the Cordelia, with Hines at the wheel, bringing firewood from Pigeon Bay to Lyttelton. Developed at 132 Port Hills Road. …

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Highlight Lane in Heathcote – Named after Highlight, a pony. Highlight is the name of the Heathcote Valley Riding School’s first pony. Named in 2003 A tiny amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name. Looks like the riding school has been operating since 1983. Most the …

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Malthouse Lane in Heathcote – Named because the street is adjacent to the Malting Company site. Named in 1997. A tiny amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. The houses here were built in 1990 and I didn’t walk the street as there …

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Fredrica Lane in Heathcote – Named after the daughter of the landowner where the street was developed. Developed at 140-144 Port Hills Road by Landform NZ. Named in 2008. A small amount of information from the library website. I have worked out who the street was named after but because she is probably still a …

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Carinya Lane in Heathcote – Named after the historic orchard from which the subdivision was developed. The name is aboriginal for “habitat”- Named in 1997. Named after the historic orchard from which the subdivision was developed. The name is aboriginal for “habitat” or from an Australian source “a happy, peaceful home” Not known which Aboriginal …

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Ardtrea Lane in Heathcote – Named in 1997 – A right-of-way at 136 Port Hills Road. A tiny amount of information from the library website and the old library website only had that it was named in 1997 but the new website had added in the information about the right of way. It is actually …

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