Englefield Road – Named after Charles William Englefield (1859- 1937). Englefield and his family leased land on the corner of North Road and what became Englefield Road from the Church Property Trustees. First appears in street directories in 1962.Interesting information from the library website. This street was obviously older as the houses were older with a lot of brick or summerhill stone. No houses stood out but at least there was a footpath on both sides of the road. There was an entrance to Englefield Park on this street. The only photo I took was of a sign outside a childcare place but also included one from the park.. I also couldn’t find the caches in this area.

Crombie Green – Developed by Belfast Developments Ltd and Styx Developments Ltd. The developers “chose names suitable for the length of the road rather than trying to establish a common theme throughout the subdivision”. Named in 2000.Again the library website didn’t have much information. There is at least two businessmen in Christchurch with the surname Crombie plus it is a place name in Scotland. Large modern houses one side and two parks Englefield Park and Northwood Park on the other side. The houses are either made of brick or cladding.. Many of the streets in Northwood had the arches at the entrance to the streets on the Northwood Boulevard end of the streets.

Bayliss Close – Named after Bayliss Nurseries. Bayliss Nurseries had existed on the site for many years and its land was subdivided to form the street. Developed by the Freeman Partnership. The streets in the subdivision are named after varieties of fruit and personalities associated with the orchard. Named on 6 September 2000.Same information from library website as for Panache Place. Another street of modern houses made from either brick or cladding. I couldn’t find the cache hidden on this street. Gardens were very orderly with well trimmed lawns and hedges. Hardly any flowers or colour in the gardens with one exception. On the side of one place was a bush with red berries just as you entered a walkway that led to a street where the New World Supermarket is.

Amamoor Street -Developed by Belfast Developments Ltd and Styx Developments Ltd. The developers “chose names suitable for the length of the road rather than trying to establish a common theme throughout the subdivision”. Named in 2000.Information from library website doesn’t actually give much information. I googled the name and there is a place called Amamoor in Queensland. This was a short street with modern houses on one side and a reserve on the other side. Houses were on the large side with extremely tidy and boring gardens. Mostly lawns and box hedges.One house did have lovely autumn coloured trees. I did like the duck sign.

Millhill Lane is in Huntsbury and there was nothing on the library website about this street. It was a short private lane with very flash houses. I will have to research to see if there was a mill here.

Hansons Lane – Named after John Edward Hanson (1840-1920). Hanson opened the Riccarton Store in 1869 on the corner of Riccarton Road and the present Hansons Lane. First appears in street directories in 1903.A small amount of information from the library website. This is a long and wide street for a street that is called a lane. The street is first mentioned in Papers Past in 1901. In 1916 there is mention of a public library and in 1919 residents were requesting a footpath. There is a Ballantyne family mentioned in 1911 and 1940. There is mention of a hostel in the 1940s.The best information about John Edward Hanson was in his obituary dated 18th November 1920. He died aged 89 and he was born in Leeds. Came out to NZ in 1863 on the Brothers Pride. He set up a store and butchery and later on set up a bakery. He owned the Riccarton Flour Mill. He was on the Riccarton Road Board and school committee. It didn’t say what school. He was very involved with St Peters Church. His wife died in 1902.At the Riccarton Rd end there were shops including Countdown Supermarket. Then there is Hansons Lane Reserve and almost opposite is Rannerdale Veterans Village. This was established in 1921 for disabled soldiers from WWI. It looks like when it was set as Rannerdale Veterans Hospital that it was in Papanui Rd but I couldn’t find out when it moved to Hansons Lane. It has been there as long as I can remember. New buildings here and I don’t know if the original building is still standing. Most the houses along this street are either wooden or brick and built in the 1940s and 1950s. Most are in reasonable condition. There were also a couple of Art Deco houses. Towards Blenheim Rd end there is a complex called Canterbury Village and with a bit of googling I found out that it is student accommodation. Also this end in a fairly modest building there is the Consul – General for People’s Republic of China.

Peer Street -Formerly Stemmer’s Road. Named after Robert Anthony Stemmer (1857?-1935). Re-named Peer’s Street and later Peer Street. Named after the racing stallion called The Peer which belong to Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1820-1879). Stemmer was a gardener of Upper Riccarton. Stemmer’s Road first appears in street directories in 1903. From 1906-1909 it appears in Stone’s as Stemmers Road and in Wise’s as Peer’s Street. Peer Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1881. From 1910 it is Peer Street in both street directories. The Peer was bred by the Hon. Capt. Hawke in 1855 and was at the stables of Messrs. John Shand & Son, Avon Lodge, Riccarton in 1862. Peer Street is one of the five residential streets once containing mainly workers’ cottages making up the area known as Peerswick. A reasonable amount of information from the library website. In Papers Past I found sections being sold on Peer Street in 1878 and in 1883 the road board were asking for tenders for gravelling the road. I couldn’t find anything on Papers Past regarding a Stemmer’s Road. This street had a mixture of houses, a supermarket and a school. There is a planned development for a rest home where there used to be Feltex Carpet Factory. I don’t recall anything standing out for me here. No photos.

Siska Place – nothing on library website. Surprised that there was nothing on the library website as the houses here are from 1980s. Have no idea how the street got the name. Several meanings for the name. It is a Czech/Slovak name meaning cone shaped dumpling. Also found name on a Library of Congress website meaning African people. It is also the name of an Indian Reserve. It is also possibly someone’s name. The houses were all different here and at least two looked older but they were both built in the 1980s in an older style. They were two story with dormer windows and they were lovely. Another house I wish that I could have got a photo of as it was so unusual. It was all curves with no straight lines. Another house just looked plain weird. At the end of the street there was a tiny reserve. The street ran off Clonbern Place.

Rountree Street – Named after Albert William Rountree (1876?-1931). Rountree is listed as a farmer of 47 Ilam Road in street directories of 1930. This was on the corner of Carleton Road (later Kirkwood Avenue) and Ilam Road, where Rountree Street was later formed. First appears in street directories in 1960.A small amount of information from the library website. You would think that it would have been easy to find information about this man but it wasn’t. Papers Past had very little information. I managed to find a bit of information on Ancestry website but this wasn’t easy as there was at least three or four people with the same name. Found information from grave – Albert William Rountree died 16/09/1931 aged 55 also Elizabeth his wife died 06/02/1950 and they are buried at St Peters in Upper Riccarton. Several family trees has his DOB as 30/03/1873 but I can’t guarantee that they have the correct Albert Rountree. The various family trees has his wife as a Elizabeth Coleman born in Ireland in 1892 but this doesn’t feel right. They haven’t backed it up with proof. They possibly had a son also called Albert but then it looked the family in North Canterbury also had a son with the same name. I do have both Albert and Elizabeth living at 47 Ilam Rd in 1928 and then I have Elizabeth at this address in 1935 and 1938. She is described as a widow. Elizabeth died in 1950 and this would fit in with the subdivision as most houses were built in the 1950s and 1960s with a couple being built in the 1990s. Mostly brick houses here and a few family homes but suspect that many are rented out to students. The Ilam Rd end has a dairy and a fish & chip shop and there is parallel car parking this end of the street. The road is narrowed in several places to slow down the traffic but when I walked the street yesterday this wasn’t working. None of the houses stood out for me and they were very ordinary.

Clonbern Place – nothing on library website. I was surprised that there was nothing on the library website as most of the houses seem to be dated from the 1960s going by the QV website. Most houses were brick and fairly ordinary looking. There was one large house down a long driveway that looked more modern. This street is near the University. Clonbern is a place name in Ireland so it is possible that the street was named after this place.