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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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Ferrymead Terrace in Ferrymead and nothing on the library website. I would have expected this street to have been in Mt Pleasant or Heathcote. The street was obviously named after the area Ferrymead and Ferrymead means meadow by ferry. Strange that there wasn’t anything on the library website as the street is mentioned in Papers …

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Tussock Lane in Woolston- Named because of the tussocks on the Port Hills. In a subdivision developed by Roc Mac Ltd. Named in 2005. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. I was surprised that I hadn’t already walked this street …

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Moorpark Place in Ilam – First appears in street directories in 1968 A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name. It is possible that the property on Ilam Road where this street was developed had an orchard with Moorpark apricot trees or they …

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Joseph Harrap Hopkins was baptised on 2nd July 1837 at Kimcote and Walton in Leicestershire. His parents were Thomas and Eliza Hopkins and Eliza’s maiden name was Harrap. They were married on 27th June 1836 at St Margarets Leicester. She was born in July 1813 at Frolesworth to Joseph and Ann Harrap. Joseph Harrap Hopkins …

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Hopkins Street in Woolston – Formerly Halfway Lane and Coronation Street. Named to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII (1841-1910) in 1902. Re-named Hopkins Street. Named after Joseph Harrap or Harrop Hopkins (1837-1910). Halfway Place first appears in street directories in 1894 as a blind street running off Ashbourne Street (later part of Ferry Road). …

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