Charlene Place – First appears in street directories in 1983.
Very little information on the library website. This street is divided from Leonard Place by a drain and I suspect that both streets were named by the developer after family members. There was one older house but the others looked new. One had an impressive garden but no photos. Library website has this street in Hillsborough whereas Leonard Place which is next to it the library website has as being in St Martins.

Leonard Place – Leonard Street first appears in street directories in 1950. Becomes Leonard Place in 1979.
Very little information on the library website. A very small street in Hillsborough/ St Martins and the houses here all looked new so I am guessing that they are all rebuilds. There was one where I would loved to have taken a photo but the occupants were all in the garden. It was an ugly house that looked more like a toilet block than a house. The photo that I did get was of a row of houses which looked more like a motel than houses. These houses were on the border of Leonard Place and Charlene Place. The streets were divided by a drain.

Vernon Tce – Named after Helen Vernon Morten, née Downes, (1834?- 1906). Helen Morten was the wife of Richard May Morten (1823-1909), a sheepfarmer. In the 1880s Morten subdivided land in St Martins, land which he had previously farmed.

A small amount of information from the library website.
Mostly new houses here and they would have been rebuilt after the earthquakes. Still some empty sections from where houses have been demolished. There is a fridge library in an old stone bus shelter at the beginning of the street and I forgot to get a photo today.The houses on one side have fairly high retaining walls. There was one old wooden house that looked original but I couldn’t get a photo as the owner was standing in the driveway. A couple of fun letterboxes here.

Rapaki Road – Formerly Whites Road. Named after William White (1824- 1899). Re-named Rapaki Road. A very old roadway used by the early settlers as an alternative way to Christchurch from Lyttelton. Named Whites Road because White, a contractor and partowner of the Mount Pleasant sheep-run, worked on developing the road. Re-named Rapaki Road in 1914. J. Longton, president of the St Martin’s Burgesses Association, asked the Heathcote County Council for the renaming. He said that Rapaki Road means the place of the sun, the estate close to the road was Rapaki and the Rapaki tea-rooms would be established there.
That was more information from the library website than I was expecting. Obviously this road leads to the Rapaki Track. Many of the houses are new because the original houses were damaged in the earthquakes. A couple of the houses had wee tracks for a cart for taking items up to the house. I did like the chair in the tree. Would be perfect for sitting and reading. Only one car parked on this steep road knew how to park properly.

Parkside Crescent – Named because well-established mature trees have been carefully preserved within the subdivision, which also adjoins the Springwater Road Reserve. The street names in the subdivision were chosen to be in keeping with the topography of the area. Named in 2002.
Interesting information from the library website and I don’t know what happened to the mature trees as I didn’t see them. Modern houses made from either brick or cladding. No photos here. Someone told me that many houses in Northwood have leaking problems and I guess that it would be the ones made with cladding as this material is known to be a problem

Millpark Place – Named because it is in a subdivision which has its own water features and is also near the ponds and water features of the Styx Mill Reserve. The developer, Carlin Enterprises, wished to recognise these features in the street names in the subdivision. Named in 2003.
Interesting information from the library website and the information is more interesting than the street. A short street with very ordinary looking houses. Yet another street with a footpath on only one side of the street. No photos.

Rindle Lane – Named after a rindle, a small water course. Named because the countryside and waterways are the common theme used for naming streets in the first stages of the subdivision, and the applicants proposed to continue the theme for two new stages. In the Styx Mill Country Club subdivision. Named in 2004.
Now this is interesting information from the library website. I had never heard of a rindle.There was only three houses on this lane and there was no footpath.