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Caldbeck Lane in Westmorland – Named after Caldbeck, a village in North Cumbria.Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. First appears in street directories in 1995. A small amount of information from the library website. Meaning of Caldbeck is …

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Rosthwaite Place in Westmorland – nothing on library website and the houses were built in the 1990s. Rosthwaite is a place name in Cumbria and the rest of the streets in the area are named after places in Cumbria. The word is from Old Norse meaning peak above the clearing with heaps of stones. I …

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Sedbergh Place in Westmorland – nothing on library website. It would have been named after a place in Cumbria as the rest of the streets in the area are named are place names in Cumbria. Sedbergh means flat topped hill. The houses here were built in the 2000s and they didn’t really stand out for …

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Uldale Place in Westmorland – Named after Uldale, a small village in Cumbria, England.Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. First appears in street directories in 1996. A small amount of information from the library website. My book about …

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Thirlmere Lane in Westmorland – Named after Thirlmere, a reservoir in the English Lake District in Cumbria. Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. First appears in street directories in 1995. A small amount of information from library website. …

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Foxfield Lane in Westmorland – nothing on library website yet the houses here were built in the 1990s. Couldn’t find the council minutes for this street. It will have been named after a village on the West Coast of Cumbria as the rest of the streets in the area are named after places in Cumbria. …

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Mavin Road in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website yet most of the houses were built in the 1950s and 1960s. A few entries on Papers Past and there were sections for sale in 1951 and 1952. In 1954 there were sections available in a ballot with priority given to former servicemen. I couldn’t …

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Kaiwara St in Hoon Hay – Named after the Kaiwara Station in the Culverden area. In a subdivision where the streets are named after rivers or properties in North Canterbury. First appears in street directories in 1962. A small amount of information from the library website and not lot that I can add about the …

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Emily Knowles Drive in Hoon Hay – this is a brand new street without any houses yet. Found information in the council minutes. Emily Knowles was a school teacher and suffragist, she arrived in Lyttelton with her husband Henry Hill in 1873. Throughout her life, Emily held executive positions in various organisations promoting social welfare …

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Blakiston St in Hoon Hay – Probably named after the Hon. Charles Robert Blakiston (1825- 1898). Blakiston was a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council in the 1850s and 1860s. In 1858 he married Mary Anna Harper, a daughter of Bishop Harper. Named in 1959. A small amount of information from the library website. Not …

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