Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Factory Road
Named because it
was the road that
led to the Belfast
Freezing Works.
Belfast
Fair Place
Named after
Hoon Hay
Arthur Fair (18851951).
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See
Source
Further
information
First mentioned in The Press
in 1883. Tenders for
shingling Factory Road were
asked for that year.
"Road Boards", The
Press, 17 July 1883,
p3
"Our local
industries", The
Press, 20 March
1874, p 2
Fair was a lawyer and judge.
“Judges’ names”,
"New Halswell
The Press, 17
subdivision", The
September 1968, p 1 Press, 8 December
1960, p 19
Alpers Place,
Barrowclough
In a 145-acre housing
Road, Callan Place,
subdivision planned by the
Dalglish Place,
housing division of the
Ministry of Works. The land Haslam Crescent,
Herdman Road,
was purchased from the
Church Property Trustees and Leicester Crescent,
McCarthy Street,
the Loughnan estate.
Myers Place,
In 1968 the street names sub- Northcroft Road,
committee of the council felt O'Leary Street,
that as Halswell was named
Ostler Place,
after a prominent English
Salmond Road and
Queen's Counsel it would be Stanton Crescent.
appropriate to record the
names of judges in street
names there. Many of them
had been QCs or KCs before
appointment to the Bench.
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"Hoon Hay
subdivision
provides 570
sections", The
Press, 30
September 1964, p
1
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Fairfield
Avenue
Named after
Addington
Fairfield, a large
house which stood
where Fairfield
Avenue was later
developed.
Fairford
Street
Suburb
Named after
Bishopdale
Fairford, a town in
Gloucestershire,
England. The
town lies in the
Cotswolds on the
River Coln.
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Additional information
Source
Further
information
The source has a photograph
of the house taken on 28
August 1863. H. J. Tancred, a
member of the General
Assembly, lived at Fairfield.
A Canterbury album:
collodion
photography in
Canterbury, 18571880, p 30
Sydenham : the
model borough of
old Christchurch :
an informal history,
p 19
Fairfield Avenue was formed
through Rural Section 17.
This was 50 acres on the
“south of Christchurch”
purchased by John Tucker.
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 1
Named in 1899 at the request
of Messrs Harman and
Stevens, land and
commission agents.
“Rural Sections
chosen”, The
Lyttelton Times, 1
March 1851, p 6
First appears in street
directories in 1901.
"Borough Councils",
Star, 18 April 1899,
p1
About 1963 the Waimairi
County Council minuted a
policy that all its streets be
named after English place
names.
“Street names”, The
Papanui Herald, 17
April 1973, p 9
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
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See
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Fairmile Place
Russley
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
Fairview
Street
Somerfield
Named in 1927 at the
Dacre Street
suggestion of Thomas
Sydney Dacre (1883-1943), a
barrister and solicitor.
Source
Further
information
"Names of streets",
The Press, 13
September 1927, p
11
Obituary, Mr T. S.
Dacre”, The Press,
12 May 1943, p 5 “
"New streets, names
selected", The Press,
27 September 1927,
p8
Fairway Drive
Named because it
is near the Shirley
Golf Club.
Shirley
The streets in the Fairway
Park subdivision are named
after American golf courses
because it is near the Shirley
Links, at the Christchurch
Golf Club.
Named post-1997.
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Baltimore Green,
Birkdale Drive,
Falconridge Place,
Ironwood Lane,
Lytham Green,
Pepperwood Place,
Ridgewood Place,
Wild Dunes Place,
Wildhawk Lane and
Wilmington Place.
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Falcon Street
Drake Street,
Scott Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Formerly Drake
Street. Named
after Sir Francis
Drake (1540?1596).
New Brighton
Drake Street is first
mentioned in The Press in
1913.
Beresford Street
“Craddock,
McCrostie
Company”, The
Press, 10 February
1913, p 8
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
Re-named Scott
Street and later
Falcon Street.
Named after
Robert Falcon
Scott (1868-1912).
First appears in street
directories in 1916.
Re-named Scott Street in
1920 by the New Brighton
Borough Council.
Re-named Falcon Street on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Scott was an Antarctic
explorer.
This name continues the
theme of naming streets in
New Brighton after British
Admirals, explorers and
fighting seafarers.
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“New street
names”, The Press,
“Borough Councils”, 24 July 1948, p 2
The Press, 9
November 1920, p 3
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Falconridge
Place
Named after
Shirley
Falcon Ridge Golf
Course in Stacy,
Minnesota.
Additional information
See
The streets in the Fairway
Park subdivision are named
after American golf courses
because it is near the Shirley
Links, at the Christchurch
Golf Club.
Burwood/Pegasus
Baltimore Green,
Community Board
Birkdale Drive,
agenda 17 June 2002
Fairway Drive,
Ironwood Lane,
Pepperwood Place,
Ridgewood Place,
Wild Dunes Place,
Wildhawk Lane and
Wilmington Place.
Named in 2002.
Falsgrave
Street
Probably named
after Falsgrave in
North Yorkshire.
Waltham
According to the minutes of
the Sydenham Borough
Council the formation and
metalling of this street was
completed by 1880.
Source
Further
information
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, p 208,
held at Christchurch
City Council
archives.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1880 in a report of a
meeting of the Sydenham
Borough Council.
“Sydenham Borough
Council”, The Press,
31 August 1880, p 3
First appears in street
directories in 1887.
Famille Close
Yaldhurst
Continues the street names
theme used in the first stage
of the Delamain subdivision.
Named in 2008.
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Delamain
Riccarton/Wigram
Delamain cognac
Community Board
transport and roading
committee 22
August 2008
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Fantail Lane
Named to
continue a theme
already
established in the
Brookhaven
subdivision.
Woolston
In a subdivision by Enterprise Bluebell Lane,
Homes developed off
Molly Mawk Place
Shearwater Drive.
and Sweet Waters
Place.
Named in 1999.
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 3 February
1999
Fantasia
Gardens
Named after
Northwood
Fantasia, a variety
of nectarine.
Bayliss Nurseries had existed
on the site for many years
and its land was subdivided
to form the street.
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 6 September
2000
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.
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See
Bayliss Close,
Oratia Grove,
Panache Place and
Richard Seddon
Drive.
Source
Further
information
"Firmly rooted in
history", The Press,
30 October 1999,
Weekend, p 21
"100 plants for 100
years - wholesaler's
offer",
Christchurch Star,
17 December 1999,
p C2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Faraday
Street
Named after
Michael Faraday
(1791-1867).
Sydenham
Faraday was an English
chemist and physicist, also
writer and lecturer.
One of the “poets and
writers” streets of Sydenham,
Addington and Waltham
named by a committee of the
Sydenham Borough Council
on 19 January 1880.
[It is mis-spelt in the report of
the committee as Farraday.]
Parklands
Farm Lane
Farnborough
Street
Named after
Aranui
Farnborough on
the Hampshire,
Surrey and
Berkshire borders.
Source
Report of the street
naming committee,
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, p 217,
held at Christchurch
City Council
archives.
“Borough Council”,
Star, 20 January
1880, p 3
“’Lost’ addresses”,
The Christchurch
Mail, 27 April 1999,
p8
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
In an area where the streets
have names associated with
the county of Hampshire.
There is a Christchurch city
and a River Avon in
Hampshire.
Named in 1955.
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See
Page 7 of 143
“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Farnham
Place
Named after
Farnham, a town
in Surrey,
England.
Ilam
About 1963 the Waimairi
County Council minuted a
policy that all its streets be
named after English place
names.
See
Source
Further
information
“Street names”, The
Papanui Herald, 17
April 1973, p 9
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
Farquhars
Road
Named after the
Farquhar family.
Redwood
George Farquhar, a farmer of
Radcliffe Street (Road), was
born at the Styx and died in
1918 at the age of 53 years.
Part of this road was renamed Cunliffe Road.
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Settling near the
Styx River, pp 164165
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F27
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Farrelly Place
Named after Rex
and Helen
Farrelly.
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
The Farrellys operated a
small farm in Claridges Road
for over thirty years (adjacent
to Highsted Residential) and
were still living in their house
in 2015. Most of their land
became part of the Highsted
subdivision.
Broadstairs Avenue,
Faversham Lane,
Glenturret Drive,
Grayshott Avenue
and Tullet Park
Drive.
Shirley/Papanui
Highsted
Community Board
Residential
agenda 17 December
2014
In stages 1-4 of Highsted
Residential. The street names
were suggested by the
developer.
Named in 2014.
Farrier Lane
Yaldhurst
In the Noble Village
Noble Village
subdivision developed on the
former Applefields land in
Yaldhurst Road. The property
has historical connections
with the breeding and racing
of standard breed horses.
Named in 2011.
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Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 15 August
2011
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 23 August
2011
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Fatima Place
Named at the
Ryan family’s
request after
Fatima, in Spain.
Redwood
The street was formed on
Hannah Place
land formerly owned by
Frank Ryan (1886-1944). His
wife Katie and daughter
Hannah were devout
Catholics and both had a
liking for Fatima which is a
place in Spain where children
saw an apparition of the
Virgin Mary early in the 20th
century. Katie Ryan had the
shops on the corner of
Daniels Road and Main
North Road built. The Ryans
also ran a mini-supermarket
in the area in the early 1960s.
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
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See
Source
Information supplied
in 2006 by Mrs
Eileen Thomson in
an interview with
Margaret Harper.
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Faversham
Lane
Named after a
street and locality
in Highsted,
England.
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
In stages 1-4 of the Highsted
subdivision. The street names
were suggested by the
developer.
Broadstairs Avenue,
Farrelly Place,
Glenturret Drive,
Grayshott Avenue
and Tullet Park
Drive.
Shirley/Papanui
Highsted
Community Board
Residential
agenda 17 December
2014
Named in 2014.
NB Highsted Road, and
consequently Highsted
Residential, are named after
John Kirby Highsted (18171871), not the town in Kent,
England.
Feast Place
Named after
Herbert Stanley
Feast (1898?1961).
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Addington
Feast was the town clerk of
Christchurch 1940-1961.
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
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Further
information
Also Highsted
Road.
Information supplied “Obituary” The
in 2007 by Richard
Press, 12
Greenaway.
September 1961, p
14
"Obituary", The
Papanui Herald, 6
October 1961, p 4
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Federer Lane
Named after
Roger Federer
(1981-)
Burnside
Federer is a Swiss tennis
player.
Name chosen by Bryndwr
Properties Ltd. The
subdivision created nine
Elderly Persons Housing
Units served by a common
access off 258-262 Grahams
Road.
Named in 2008.
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See
Source
Fendalton/Waimairi
Community Board
works, traffic and
environment
committee agenda,
25 February 2008
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Feilding
Street
Spohr Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Formerly Spohr
Street. Named
after Louis Spohr
(1784-1859).
Addington
Spohr was a German virtuoso
violinist and composer.
Re-named
Feilding Street.
Spohr Street is first
mentioned in The Press in
1881 in a report of a meeting
of the Sydenham Borough
Council. Mr Ruddenklau had
constructed a street in Rural
Section 72 and was applying
for it to be taken over by the
council.
Spohr Street first appears in
street directories in 1892.
Re-named Feilding Street in
1917 because of a dislike of
German names during World
War I (1914-1918).
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See
Source
Further
information
“Sydenham Borough “German street
Council”, The Press, names”, The Press,
16 August 1881, p 3 26 September
“City Council”, The 1917, p 7
“Street names”,
Press, 30 January
The Press, 13
1917, p 10
September 1924, p
“Would road by any
13
other name stay as
street”, Pegasus Post,
12 July 1978, p 16
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Felicitas
Grove
Sister Felicitas
"Ellen" Hanrahan
(1905-1999).
Halswell
Sister Hanrahan was a
Aidanfield
Melbourne sister who worked
at Mount Magdala in the
1930s. She worked in New
Zealand until the 1970s
before returning to Australia.
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 3 March
2004
Mount Magdala :
80 years of
care…with a short
history of the
institution
Pitch your tents on
distant shores: a
history of the
Sisters of Good
Shepherd in
Australia,
Aotearoa/New
Zealand and Tahiti
The street names in the
Aidanfield subdivision are
those of former Sisters of the
Good Shepherd Order and
former residents of the Good
Shepherd Sisters’ Home at
Halswell.
Named in 2004.
Felstead Place
Named after
Avonhead
Felstead, a village
in Essex, England.
About 1963 the Waimairi
County Council minuted a
policy that all its streets be
named after English place
names.
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
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“Street names”, The
Papanui Herald, 17
April 1973, p 9
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Felthams
Road
Named after
Thomas Feltham
(1824?-1898).
Akaroa
Feltham and his wife opened
the first school in Akaroa in
1854. He was also a
renowned nurseryman and
seedsman. Felthams Road
was developed where he had
lived 1865-1898.
See
Source
Further
information
Akaroa/Wairewa
Community Board
agenda 7 July 2010
"Local and
General", Akaroa
Mail and Banks
Peninsula
Advertiser, 20 May
1898, p 2
Named by the developer who
selected the name as "it is a
simple and straightforward
name that we do not believe
will be confused with any
other in Akaroa".
Named in 2010.
Fenchurch
Street
Named after
Fenchurch Street,
a railway station
in the City of
London.
Redwood,
Northcote
One of a group of streets
named after London railway
stations. The Main North
Railway passes right by the
area.
Named in 1955.
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Aldgate Street,
Camden Street,
Ealing Street,
Grosvenor Street,
Lambeth Crescent,
Paddington Street
and Uxbridge
Street.
“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Fendall Lane
Named after
Walpole Cheshire
Fendall (1830–
1913).
Fendalton
Named to pay tribute to
Fendall whose land, Rural
Section 18, 50 acres in
Fendall Town, was
subdivided to create what is
known today as Fendalton.
Fendalton
"Rural Sections
chosen", The
Lyttelton Times, 1
March 1851, p 6
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F67
Named in 2015.
Province of
"Obituary", The
Canterbury, New
Press, 7 April 1913,
Zealand : list of
p9
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 1
Fendalton/Waimairi
Community Board
agenda 30 November
2015
Fendalton/Waimairi
Community Board
minutes 30
November 2015
"New road name",
Western News, 7
December 2015, p 5
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fendalton
Road
Origin of name
Fendall Town Named after
Road.
Walpole Cheshire
Princess/Princ Fendall (1830–
es Street was 1913).
incorporated
into
Fendalton
Road.
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Fendalton
Fendall Town Road was cut
through Rural Section 18, 50
acres in Fendall Town
purchased by W. C. Fendall.
Fendalton
"Rural Sections
chosen", The
Lyttelton Times, 1
March 1851, p 6
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F67
Fendall Town Road is first
mentioned in The Lyttelton
Times in 1857.
Fendalton Road first appears
in street directories in 1894.
At that time Fendalton Road
extended into what became
Burnside Road (later
Memorial Avenue).
A section of Fendalton Road
near Holmwood Road was
formerly named Princess or
Princes Street.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1880 when “53 beautiful
villa sites adjoining Mr
Wilkin’s residence at
Holmwood” are advertised
for sale in The Press.
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Province of
"Obituary", The
Canterbury, New
Press, 7 April 1913,
Zealand : list of
p9
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 1
“Advertisements”,
The Lyttelton Times,
14 November 1857,
p6
“The Hagley Park
Roads”, Star, 16
June 1879, p 3
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 7 October
1880, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fenners Lane
Origin of name
Fenner's Lane Named after
William Albert
Smith Fenner
(1864?-1949).
Suburb
Additional information
See
New Brighton
Fenner was living on
Seaview Road in 1897. He
worked for Mason Struthers
& Co Ltd for 27 years.
"Fires", Star, 4
January 1897, p 4
The New Brighton Borough
Council took over Fenner's
Lane in 1914.
"New Brighton
notes", Star, 11 July
1914, p 11
First appears in street
directories in 1925.
Ferdinand
Terrace
Named after
Henry-Ferdinand
Delamain (d.
1899).
Yaldhurst
Delamain took over the
Delamain
cognac producing business in
1865.
In the Delamain subdivision.
Named in 2007.
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Source
Further
information
“Personal items”,
The Press, 6 March
"Borough Councils", 1906, p 7
Sun, 7 July 1914, p 2
Riccarton/Wigram
Delamain cognac
Community Board
Transport and
Roading Committee
agenda 29 June 2007
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Fergusson
Avenue
Named after
Mairehau
General Sir
Charles Fergusson
(1865-1951).
Additional information
Fergusson was the GovernorGeneral of New Zealand
1924-1930.
Described as a "new" street in
The Press in 1927 when land
is advertised for sale there.
First appears in street
directories in 1930.
See
Source
Further
information
"Advertisements",
The Press, 26
November 1927, p
24
Governor-General
of Aotearoa, New
Zealand
“Streets named and
changed”, The Press,
1 September 1959, p
16
[His surname is spelt
correctly in 1930 but over the
years one “s” was dropped.
This was corrected in 1959.]
Fern Drive
Ferndown
Lane
Named after
Ferndown in
Hampshire,
England.
Halswell
First appears in street
directories in 1972.
Bromley
Ferndown is a small village
near Linwood in Hampshire.
Developed by Hawk
Investments at 394 Linwood
Avenue.
Named in 2004.
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Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 1 September
2004
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Ferner Street
Origin of name
Smith’s
Road/Smith
Street and
Queensbury
Street/Queen
Street.
Suburb
Additional information
Dallington
Smith's Road/Smith Street
Queensbury Street
ran from McBratneys Road to
Birchfield Street from 1920.
No residents are ever listed.
Map of Christchurch,
[1930]
By 1930 it had been renamed Queen Street. It
became part of Queensbury
Street from 1939.
“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Also Madge
Street.
See
It appears on a 1954 map as
Madge Street but this never
appears in street directories.
Madge King (1894-1967)
owned a small shop in
Birchfield Avenue.
Source
Map of Christchurch
and environs, 1954.
Early Dallington, p
10
Re-named Ferner Street in
1955.
Ferniehurst
Street
Named after
Ferniehurst which
is 24 km from
Cheviot.
Somerfield
In a subdivision where the
streets are named after rivers
or properties in North
Canterbury.
Named in 1966.
First appears in street
directories in 1970.
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Greta Place,
Kaiwara Street,
Molesworth Place,
Palmside Street and
Tekoa Place.
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 13
December 1966.
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Fernwood
Courts
Named after
Fernwood, the
retirement home
for the blind that
once stood on the
rear of the site.
Suburb
Additional information
Developed at 86 and 90
Bristol Street. Name
suggested by the Royal New
Zealand Foundation for the
Blind because of its
connection with the land
being subdivided.
See
Source
Further
information
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 3 February
1999
Named in 1999.
Ferry Road
Sumner Road,
Ashbourne
Road and
Regent Street.
Formerly Sumner Central city,
Road. Named after Waltham,
John Bird Sumner Woolston
(1780-1862).
From St Asaph Street to the
East Belt (later Fitzgerald
Avenue) was formerly
Sumner Road.
Re-named Ferry
Road. Named
because it was the
road leading to the
ferry at the
Heathcote River.
Sumner was an Archbishop
of Canterbury and a President
of the Canterbury
Association.
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Formation of the road began
in 1850 and was improved at
time of establishment of
Provincial Government. A
ferry service was established
connecting the Ferry Road
with the Heathcote Valley
Road leading to the foot of
the Bridle Path.
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Reproduction of
Edward Jollie's 1850
map of the proposed
city. Department of
Lands and Survey,
Christchurch.
Historical Maps
Reminiscences of a
surveyor, runholder
and politician in
Canterbury and
Otago, 1841-1865,
pp 28-29
Early days of
Canterbury, p 27
The evolution of a
city, p 13
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: J169
& T144
“Obituary”, The
Press, 9 August
1894, p 5e
“Obituary”, Star, 9
August 1894, p 1
View the biography
of Joseph Thomas
in the Dictionary of
New Zealand
Biography.
The Canterbury
Association: a
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Source
Further
information
"Heathcote Ferry Road" is
first mentioned in the
Lyttelton Times in 1851.
Old Christchurch in
picture and story, pp
50-51
study of its
members’
connections, p 93
In 1884 “the Ferry Road,
from Hargood’s Road to the
swing bridge” was re-named
Regent Street. From Ensors
Road-Aldwins Road to
Radley Street was re-named
Ashbourne Street in 1893 and
became part of Ferry Road in
1922.
"Advertisements",
Lyttelton Times, 8
March 1851, p 1
“Street names”,
The Press, 13
September 1924, p
13
From Radley Street to the
Heathcote bridge remained as
Regent Street until 1922
when it was re-named Ferry
Road.
[The ferry went out of
business when the bridge was
built over the Heathcote
River.]
See
"Woolston Town
Board", Star, 14
January 1884, p 4
“Woolston Borough
Council”, The Press,
16 September 1893,
p 10
"Early provincial
days: roadways and
waterways", Star, 13
February 1901, p 4
"General news", The
Press, 15 July 1919,
p6
“Street names”, The
Press, 2 September
1930, p 12
“Changes in old
place names”, The
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Press, 28 January
1936, p 17
Ferrymead
Park Drive
Field Terrace
Spring Street
and Field
Street.
Fieldstone
Lane
Ferrymead
Named in 1999.
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 4 August
1999
Upper
Riccarton
Field Street and Spring Street
both appear first in street
directories in 1921. The two
streets were amalgamated and
re-named Field Terrace in
June 1948.
"Street names
"Street names",
changed", The Press, The Press, 25 June
25 June 1948, p 9
1948, p 6
Spreydon
Developed at 398-404
Barrington Street.
Spreydon/Heathcote
Community Board
agenda 5 July 2005
Named in 2005.
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fifield
Terrace
River Road
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Formerly River
Opawa,
road. Named
Woolston
because it runs
along the northern
side of the River
Heathcote
between Wilson's
Bridge and the
Railway.
Bray was consulting engineer Avonhead
to the Canterbury Provincial
Council. An advertisement
for a general servant for “a
family up country” appears in
the Star in 1880. Mrs Bray,
Fifield, Opawa, “near railway
station” is the advertiser.
Re-named Fifield
Terrace. Named
after Fifield, the
home of William
Bayley Bray
(1812?-1885).
First appears in street
directories in 1924.
Re-named in 1917.
Source
Further
information
“Obituary”, The
“Advertisements”,
Star, 10 July 1880, p Lyttelton Times, 1
June 1885, p 5
2
“Alterations to street "Obituary", The
names”, The Press,
Press, 30 May
26 June 1917, p 11
1885, p 3
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 170
“Death”, Star, 28
May 1885, p 2
“In Memoriam”,
Star, 30 May 1885,
p3
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: B694
“Street names”,
The Press, 13
September 1924, p
13
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Findlay
Avenue
Named after the
original Findlay's
farm which
adjoined the
Halswell Quarry.
Halswell
George Findlay (1830-1888) Quarry View
was a stonemason and
foreman of works for the City
Council.
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 28 February
2012
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F115
In the Quarry View
subdivision.
The developers submitted
street names having a
connection with the Halswell
Quarry, its location and its
product.
Named in 2012.
Finlay Place
Named after
William Duncan
Finlay (1871?1955).
Woolston
Finlay is listed in early 1940s
street directories living at 108
Mackenzie Avenue where
this street was later formed.
First appears in street
directories in 1950.
Finnsarby
Place
Named after the
Sumner
Finn class yacht of
Brett de Thier
(1945-).
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The class was designed by
the Swedish sailor Erik
Rickard Sarby (1912-1977).
First appears in street
directories in 1977.
Page 25 of 143
Sumner to
Ferrymead: a
Christchurch history,
p 207
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Finsbury
Street
Probably named
after Finsbury
Park in London.
Islington
Named in 1955.
“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Fintan Mews
Named after Sister Aidanfield
Mary of St Fintan
Tuohey.
In stages 8 and 9 of the
Aidanfield
Aidanfield subdivision where
the street names are those of
former Sisters of the Good
Shepherd Order and former
residents of the Good
Shepherd Sisters Home at
Halswell.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 15 August
2011
Named in 2011.
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See
Source
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 23 August
2011
Further
information
Mount Magdala :
80 years of
care…with a short
history of the
institution
Pitch your tents on
distant shores: a
history of the
Sisters of Good
Shepherd in
Australia,
Aotearoa/New
Zealand and Tahiti
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Fisher Avenue Fisher Street
Named after
James Temple
Fisher (18281905) and his
brother, Stephen
Fisher (18181897).
Beckenham
The brothers owned a large
Beckenham Road
area of land in the
and Sandwich Road.
Beckenham area. Stephen
Also Beckenham.
Fisher’s home stood where
St. Peter’s Church is in Fisher
Avenue now.
Fisher Street first appears in
street directories in 1903 as a
blind street off Colombo
Street. Four residents only are
listed.
Dedicated as a public street in
1907.
A petition by 50 residents of
Fisher street asking for the
street to be re-named Fisher
Avenue, was agreed to by the
Christchurch City Council on
26 July 1943. Postal
authorities frequently
confused Fisher street,
Beckenham, with Fisher
street (later Mountbatten
Street), New Brighton.
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See
Source
Further
information
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand: list of
sections purchased to
April 30, 1863, p 2
Along the hills: a
history of the
Heathcote Road
Board and the
Heathcote County
Council 18641989, p 13
“Rural Sections
chosen”, The
Lyttelton Times, 15
March 1851, p 7
Beckenham, a
suburb of
Christchurch,
Canterbury, pp 8-13
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F135
& F139
“Obituary”, The
“City Council”, Star, Press, 2 July 1897,
p5
10 September 1907,
“Obituary”, The
p1
Press, 5 January
“General news”, The
1905, p 10
Press, 27 July 1943,
“Death of an old
p4
settler”, Feilding
Star, 4 January
1905, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fitzgerald
Avenue
East Town
Belt and East
Belt.
North Avon
Road from
Fitzgerald
Avenue
northward.
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Formerly East
Town Belt and
East Belt. Named
by the Canterbury
Association
surveyors who
laid out the
boundaries of the
original city
within roadways
called "belts" or
"town belts".
Central city,
Richmond
East Town Belt first appears
in street directories in 1878.
Re-named
Fitzgerald
Avenue. Named
after James
Edward Fitzgerald
(1818-1896).
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February 2016
See
Source
Bealey Avenue and Plan of the city of
Moorhouse Avenue. Christchurch
(Selwyn county)
Re-named Fitzgerald Avenue
Canterbury, New
on 11 January 1904 after the
Zealand, 1883. Map
merging of several boroughs
“Re-naming the
into the City of Christchurch
Belts”, The Press, 15
in 1903.
December 1903, p 4
Fitzgerald was a journalist,
“Re-naming the
provincial superintendent,
Belts”, The Press, 15
politician and public servant.
December 1903, p 6
North Avon Road from
“Re-naming the
Fitzgerald Avenue northward
Belts”, The Press, 12
was re-named Fitzgerald
January 1904, p 6
Avenue on 24 May 1926.
The evolution of a
city, p 14
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 28 May
1926, p 17
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Further
information
View the biography
of James Edward
FitzGerald in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F154
“Obituary”, Star, 7
August 1896, p 5
“Street names”,
The Press, 22
February 1926, p
10
“Street names”,
The Press, 26 May
1926, p 11
“Christchurch can
look better”, The
Press, 30 June
2005, p. A9
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Fitzpatricks
Lane
Named after
Linwood
Ricardo Patrick
“Ric” Fitzpatrick
(1924-2010) and
Rita Fitzpatrick (d.
2008).
Additional information
Ric and Rita Fitzpatrick were
life members of the Rangers
AFC. Rita organised and
managed women’s football
for both juniors and seniors
and Ric was involved in the
management of junior teams.
Both served as delegates of
Rangers AFC on the
Canterbury Football
Association committees and
organised social activities for
the club.
Named in 2010.
Fitzroy Place
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Bishopdale
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
Page 29 of 143
See
Source
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
extraordinary agenda
22 September 2010
Report of the
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board to
the Council Meeting
of 2 December 2010
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Flavell Street
Lee Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Formerly Lee
Street. Named
after Alfred Lee
Smith (18381917).
Heathcote
Valley
In 1873 Smith developed
three streets in the Heathcote
Valley, naming them Lee
Street, Smith Street and
Vogel Street. He operated a
malthouse on the site.
Marsden Street and
Rollin Street.
Malting in Heathcote Along the hills: a
Valley 1871-1981,
history of the
pp 11-13
Heathcote Road
Board and the
Sumner to
Heathcote County
Ferrymead: a
Council 1864Christchurch history,
1989,
p 129
p 207
Re-named Flavell
Street. Named
after Charles
Flavell (1871?1955).
Lee Street was re-named
Flavell Street in 1933 by the
Public Utilities Committee of
the Heathcote County
Council at the request of the
Post and Telegraph
Department.
Flavell was an original
member of the Heathcote
County Council which was
formed in 1911.
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“Street names”, The
Press, 15 October
1932, p 14
"Street names", The
Press, 31 January
1933, p 3
Further
information
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: S466
“Obituary”, The
Press, 9 November
1955, p 14
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Flaxon Place
Named because of Burwood
an association of
the name with
swamps or
wetlands.
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 16 August
2006
A subdivision developed off
Kingsbridge Drive by
Enterprise Homes on the
opposite side of Travis Road
to the Travis Wetland Nature
Heritage Park.
Flaxon Fells was the first
name suggested.
Named in 2006.
Flay Crescent
Named after
Professor Albert
Hugh Flay (19051973).
Burnside
Flay was head of farm
management at Lincoln
College. He owned 50 acres
of land on the eastern side of
Grahams Road opposite the
Waimairi Cemetery, where
Flay Crescent was formed.
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
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Flay Park
Fendall’s legacy: a
history of Fendalton
and north-west
Christchurch, p 175
“Long association
with Lincoln
College”, The
Press, 27 March
1973, p 4
"Making space",
The Press, 24
February 1992, p 9
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fleete Street
Queensbury
Street. The
section south
of New
Brighton
Road was
formerly
Queen Street
and was
incorporated
into Fleete
Street.
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after Percy Burwood,
Lonsdale Fleete
Dallington
(1884-1968).
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Additional information
See
Queensberry Street first
Queensbury Street
appears in street directories in
1913.
Re-named Queensbury Street
in 1934.
The section south of New
Brighton Road was re-named
Queen Street by 1930 and
later, in 1955, Fleete Street.
Fleete, a market gardener, is
listed as a resident of the
street in 1954, living at 69
Queensbury Street.
Page 32 of 143
Source
Map of Christchurch,
[1930]
“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Fleming
Street
Probably named
after Charles
Elphinstone
Fleming (17741840).
North New
Brighton
Fleming was an aristocrat, a
member of parliament and an
admiral during the
Napoleonic Wars.
See
Source
“Advertisements”,
Star, 10 April 1915,
p7
This name probably
continues the naval theme of
street names in the North
New Brighton area.
First mentioned in the Star in
1915 when a section is
advertised for sale there.
First appears in street
directories in 1919.
Flemington
Avenue
Named after the
Flemington
Racecourse in
Melbourne.
North New
Brighton
Names of three famous
Ascot Avenue and
racecourses - Ascot,
Randwick Street.
Flemington and Randwick were chosen for streets on the
north-east side of the New
Brighton Trotting Club's
course at North Beach.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1913.
First appears in street
directories in 1919.
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"Advertisements",
The Press, 7 October
1913, p 12
“Naming of streets in
new subdivisions”,
The Press, 1
November 1958, p
10
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Flesher
Avenue
Named after the
Flesher family.
Richmond
William Flesher (1837-1889)
bought 25 acres there for
£500 in 1871. His son, James
Arthur Flesher (1865-1930),
a lawyer, was mayor of New
Brighton 1912-1913 and
1915-1917 and mayor of
Christchurch 1923-1925.
See
Source
Further
information
“William Flesher”,
Richmond,
Christchurch: a
Star, 27 February
regional history, p 18 1889, p 4
A house with a story “Mr J. A. Flesher”,
: Avebury House, p The Press, 19
(7)
August 1930, p 10
“Obituary”, The
Press, 19 August
1930, p 11
The road was formed out of
land that had previously
belonged to Avebury House
and acknowledged the
contribution of the Flesher
family to the Richmond
community.
First appears in street
directories in 1943.
Fletcher Place
Named after
Henry Fletcher
(1844-1942).
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Upper
Riccarton
Fletcher was the first market
gardener in Riccarton. In
1879 he is listed in street
directories as living at
Okeover in Ilam and by 1902
he is at Stemmers Road (later
Peer Street), Peerswick,
Upper Riccarton. He had
eleven children, most of
Page 34 of 143
Information supplied
in 2008 by Barbara
White, a descendant
of Fletcher, in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
“Still gardening”,
The Christchurch
Times, 19 January
1934, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
whom settled in the Upper
Riccarton area. He left his
land to his sons and his house
to his daughters. When the
Christchurch City Council
wanted to buy the property to
build pensioner cottages, the
family sold it on condition
that the street to be formed
was named Fletcher Place.
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
Fleur Lane
Named after Fleur Burwood
Susan Watson, née
Stewart, (1974?1999).
Fleur Watson was the
daughter of Paul Stewart and
Susan and Owen Roberts.
The street was developed by
the Roberts Partnership at 70
Vivian Street.
The family had a long
association with this and
surrounding property.
Named in 2002.
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"Deaths", The
Burwood/Pegasus
Press, 21
Community Board
agenda 13 May 2002 September 1999, p
33
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Flimwell Lane
Named after
Flimwell in East
Sussex.
Lyttelton
The Rev. Benjamin Woolley
Dudley (1805-1892) served
as a curate in the parish of
Ticehurst 1851-1859. This
parish included a church in
Flimwell.
Dudley Road
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 16 June
1920, p 1
The Blain
Biographical
Directory of
Anglican Clergy in
the Pacific
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: D466
Made a public street from 1
August 1920 by the Lyttelton
Borough Council.
First appears in street
directories in 1981.
Flinders Road
Named after John
Flinders Scott
(1876-1941).
Heathcote
Valley
Scott, a pastoral farmer of
Opawa, was a member of the
Heathcote County Council
for twelve years.
First appears in street
directories in 1955.
Hawford Street.
Also Bowenvale.
Sumner to
Ferrymead: a
Christchurch history,
p 207
From glasshouses
Early fruitgrowing in to the Port Hills:
Canterbury New
the story of John
Zealand, pp 92-94
Flinders Scott
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, pp
117-118
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“Obituary”, The
Press, 30 July
1941, p 8
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Flockton
Street
Named after
Charles Flockton
(d. 1885).
Mairehau
Flockton was a coach builder,
general smith and engineerin-charge of the works at
Canterbury Railways.
See
Flockton Street is first
mentioned in the Star in
1880. In 1890 a deputation of
residents asked the council to
"form the street".
Source
Further
information
"Drainage Board",
Star, 3 August 1880,
p3
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F200
"St Albans Borough
Council", Star, 17
October 1890, p 1
First appears in street
directories in 1896.
Flora Lane
The Groynes Park
Groynes Park
subdivision was developed
by Eminence Investments
Ltd, a group of Malaysian
nationals from Sarawak state,
in conjunction with Groynes
Development (2012) Ltd.
Named in 2015.
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Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 14 October
2015
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
minutes 14 October
2015
Groynes Park
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Florance
Place
Named after
Parklands
Augustus Florance
(1847-1897).
Additional information
Florance was born at
Portland, Dorset, and
emigrated to Canterbury in
1863. He was a compositor
for The Lyttelton Times and
pioneer owner of land at
North New Brighton near the
seashore. As a private
experiment, he imported
seashore lupins and marram
grass from Australia and
planted them. They are sandbinding plants.
First appears in street
directories in 1981.
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Source
Further
information
Rich man, poor man, G R Macdonald
environmentalist,
dictionary of
thief
Canterbury
biographies: F204
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Flower Street
Named after
Arthur Edward
Flower (18741952).
Bryndwr,
Papanui.
Flower was a pupil of
Christ’s College and later a
master at for 40 years.
Flowers House, a boardinghouse at the school, is named
after him. This was
demolished in 2004.
Blanch Street,
Bourne Crescent,
Condell Avenue,
Harris Crescent,
Moreland Avenue,
Richards Avenue
and Tothill Place.
Papanui Heritage
Group
“Death of Mr A. E.
Flower”, The Press,
19 June 1952, p 8
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 29
“Death of Mr A. E.
Flower”, The Press,
19 June 1952, p 8
One of the Papanui streets
developed on land belonging
to Christ’s College.
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
Flowers
Track
Named after
Arthur Edward
Flower (18741952).
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Goes from
Scarborough
Road to
Nicholson
Park.
Flower was a pupil of
Christ’s College and later a
master at for 40 years. He
was a resident of
Scarborough in the 1930s.
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Foochow
Avenue
Named after the
foochow dialect
spoken in
Sarawak.
Suburb
Additional information
The Groynes Park
Groynes Park
subdivision was developed
by Eminence Investments
Ltd, a group of Malaysian
nationals from Sarawak state,
in conjunction with Groynes
Development (2012) Ltd.
Named in 2015.
Forbes Street
Probably named
after Edward
Forbes (18151854).
Sydenham
Forbes was a British
naturalist.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1881 when Anderson’s
paddock is subdivided into 44
sections ”situated in the best
part of Sydenham” and sold
by auction.
First appears in street
directories in 1906.
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Page 40 of 143
Source
Further
information
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 14 October
2015
Groynes Park
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
minutes 14 October
2015
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 15
October 1881, p 4
“’Lost’ addresses”,
The Christchurch
Mail, 27 April 1999,
p8
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Ford Road
Named because it
was the site of a
ford across the
Heathcote River
used by early
settlers travelling
from Lyttelton to
Christchurch.
Opawa
First appears in street
directories in 1906.
Parklands
The Community Board
commended the developer,
Smith Developments Ltd in
its use of a forestry theme
when naming streets in the
Forest Park Estate
subdivision.
Foresters
Crescent
See
Source
"Bligh's Road
School", Sun, 7 May
1920, p 11
Corsican Grove,
Larchwood Lane,
Stoneleigh Green.
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
Agenda 30 August
2004
Named in 2004.
Forfar Street
Hamilton
Street
Named after
St Albans
Forfar in Scotland.
Hamilton Street first appears
in street directories in 1902.
Re-named Forfar Street on 7
March 1904. Among a
number of streets re-named in
1904 and given the names of
place-names in the United
Kingdom.
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“Re-naming streets”,
The Press, 8 March
1904, p 5
Christchurch City
Council minute
book, June 1903October 1904 held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Forgan Lane
Named after
James Forgan
(1822-1886).
Halswell
In 1856 Forgan entered into
partnership with James
Feather (1824-1898) and
opened the Halswell Quarry.
Spreydon
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
Richmond
First mentioned in street
directories in 1902 with a see
ref. to Stanmore Road.
Forsyth Street
Forth Street
Probably named
after the River
Forth in Scotland.
Halswell. Also
Edmund Storr Road,
John Olliver
Terrace, Lady
Nugent Lane,
The street names in the Milns
Marsack Crescent,
Estate subdivision all have an
and William Brittan
historical connection with the
Avenue. Also Milns
Halswell area.
Estate
Named in 1999.
First mentioned in the Star in
1904 in an advertisement.
Not listed in street directories
with residents until 1905.
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February 2016
See
Page 42 of 143
Source
Further
information
Riccarton//Wigram
Community Board
agenda November
1999
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F245
"Advertisements",
Star, 9 July 1904, p 6
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Foster Street
Part of
Princess
Street.
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after John
Foster (18171903).
Addington
Foster was a road contractor
of Riccarton and lived on the
section of Princess Street
which became Foster Street.
First mentioned in the Star in
1897.
First appears in street
directories in 1904.
Foster
Terrace
Named after
William Thomas
Foster (18671945).
Lyttelton
Foster was the mayor of the
Lyttelton Borough Council
1929-1931. He was a member
of the council for nearly 40
years and deputy-mayor at
the time of his death.
First appears in street
directories in 1958.
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February 2016
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See
Source
Further
information
“Sudden death”,
Star, 7 December
1897, p 3
Early Christchurch
and Canterbury :
newspaper
clippings ca 19231950, Vol 2, p 177
A history of early
Riccarton (no
pagination)
Riccarton, the
founding borough: a
short history,
Canterbury’s
founding settlement,
p 117
The story of
Lyttelton, 18491949, p 146
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F267
“Death”, The Press,
30 April 1903, p 1
“Obituary”, The
Press, 1 November
1945, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Foula Place
Named after
Foula, one of the
Shetland Islands
of Scotland.
Woolston
Continues the theme of using Vaila Place
names from the Shetland
Islands for cul-de-sacs
developed off Kennaway
Road.
Source
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 2 April 2014
Named in 2014.
Yaldhurst
Founders
Lane
Fountainhead
Lane
Named after the
book The
Fountainhead.
Hillmorton
In the Noble Village
subdivision developed on the
former Applefields land in
Yaldhurst Road. The property
has historical connections
with the breeding and racing
of standard breed horses.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 15 August
2011
Named in 2011.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 23 August
2011
Named by architect Ray
Hawthorne. The book is the
fictional story of architect
Howard Roark and was
written by Ayn Rand in 1943.
Information supplied
in 2004 by Linda
Mauger in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
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February 2016
Apple Orchard
Lane, Gallop Lane,
George Noble Road,
Sir John McKenzie
Avenue, Stirrup
Lane, Stud Road.
Also Noble Village.
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Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Fountains
Road
Named after
Halswell Road
James Alfred
Fountain or
Fountaine (1852?1892).
Additional information
See
Fountain farmed on "the
Harewood Road". He moved
to Oaklands, then described
as being in Prebbleton, later
in Halswell. An infant
daughter, Lucy Ethel, died
there in 1880.
Source
Further
information
"Road Boards", The
Press, 13 August
1877, p 3
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F282a
First mentioned in The Press
in 1877.
Parklands
Four Elms
Place
The suburb was established
near the Bottle Lake forest
and the street names have a
"tree" theme.
First appears in street
directories in 1976.
Four Peaks
Drive
Named after Four
Peaks Station,
near Fairlie in
South Canterbury.
Continues the theme of high
country farms used for street
names in the Broken Run
subdivision.
Named in 2015.
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Ashwood Street,
Heathglen Avenue,
Pinaster Place,
Radiata Avenue,
Sequoia Place and
Sophora Place.
Broken Run
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 16 December
2014
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 3 February
2015
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fovant Street
Railway
Street, Park
Road and
Currie Street.
Origin of name
Suburb
Formerly Currie
Russley
Street. Named
after the Currie
family (Colin,
Margaret and
Archibald Currie).
Re-named Fovant
Street. Named
after Fovant, a
village in southwest Wiltshire,
England.
Additional information
Railway Street and Park
Road both first appear in
street directories in 1910:
Railway Street as a blind road
off Yaldhurst Road, Park
Road running off Russley
Road.
Railway Street was re-named
Currie Street by the Waimairi
County Council on 8
February 1933.
The Currie family was living
at 137 Russley Road in 1934.
Re-named Fovant Street in
June 1948 when 24 streets in
the Waimairi County were renamed.
Fox Lane
Francella
Street
Francella
Place
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February 2016
Cashmere
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
Bromley
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
Page 46 of 143
See
Source
Further
information
Waimairi County
Council, minute
book, 1931-1936, p
308, held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
"Street names",
The Press, 25 June
1948, p 6
"Street names
changed", The Press,
25 June 1948, p 9
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Francis
Avenue
Named after
Francis Harrison
(1815?-1887).
Mairehau
Harrison farmed on land off Harrison Street and
Warrington Street near where Carrick Street. Also
Francis Avenue is located.
Harrison’s Town.
This farm probably
disappeared in 1910 when
Joshua Harrison auctioned off
48 residential sections. In
1906 he was living on the
corner of Cranford Street and
Shirley Road.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1910 where it is described
as a street “to be formed” in
an advertisement for the
auction of the Harrison estate
subdivision.
See
Source
Further
information
St Albans: from
swamp to suburbs:
an informal history,
p 17
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: H232
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 7
November 1887, p 1
Charlotte Howard
& Charlotte
Thompson: a
colonial saga, p 22
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 14 April
1910, p 12
First appears in street
directories in 1914.
Francis James
Lane
Named after
Francis James
O’Leary (19211998).
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February 2016
Moncks Spur
O'Leary, an engineer, was the
grandfather of one of the
developers.
Developed in 2005 by N. & J.
Blakely.
Page 47 of 143
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 13 July 2005
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Francis Mill
Grove
Named after Colin Westmorland
Francis (d. 2012).
Additional information
See
Francis was project and sales Westmorland
manager for the Westmorland
subdivision.
Named in 2013.
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 17
September 2013
Minutes of the
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 17
September 2013
Information supplied
by Lindsay Dove in
an interview with
Margaret Harper in
2015.
Frank Street
Named after
Francis Edward
Horner (18731943).
Papanui
Francis Horner was a son of
William and Mary Horner. At
the time of his marriage in
1895 he was a storeman of
Papanui.
Horner Street,
Loftus Street, Mary
Street, Proctor
Street and
Wyndham Street.
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 15 April
1889, p 1
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: H765
Shirley/Papanui
“Obituary”, The
First mentioned in The Press
in 1889.
First appears in street
directories in 1892.
Frank Coxon
Named after Frank Belfast
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Coxon came to New Zealand
Page 48 of 143
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Road
Coxon (18591932).
Suburb
Additional information
See
in 1881 as the first engineer
to the New Zealand
Refrigerating Company. He
was commissioned as an
engineer to design the Belfast
Freezing Works and was also
involved in the purchase of
the land for it. He moved to
Sydney in 1890.
Source
Further
information
Community Board
agenda 15 February
2015
Press, 9 September
1932, p 17
The Canterbury
Association: a study
of its members’
connections, p 67
A history of
Canterbury, Vol 1,
pp 242-245
In the Belfast Business Park.
Named in 2015.
Frankleigh
Street
Named after the
baronetcy of
Frankley.
[The name of the
street is wrongly
spelt.]
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February 2016
Somerfield
A title belonging to the
Lyttelton family. Several
streets in this area have
names associated with the
Canterbury Association and,
especially, the Lyttelton
family. They were formed on
Rural Section 76, 700 acres
on the "Lower Lincoln Road,
Heathcote Bridge" purchased
by Frederick Spencer, 4th
Earl Spencer (1798-1857)
and Conway Lucas Rose
(1817-1910). Spencer’s
interest in the land was
passed on to his nephew, the
Page 49 of 143
Bewdley Street,
Bredon Lane, Clent
Lane, Evesham
Crescent, Gleig
Place, Glynne
Crescent, Lyttelton
Street, Stanbury
Street (formerly
Droitwich Street),
Stourbridge Street,
Sumner Street and
Wychbury Street.
Also Hagley Park.
“Suicide of Lord
Province of
Lyttelton”, Evening
Canterbury, New
Post, 22 May 1876,
Zealand : list of
2
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 2
"Rural Sections
chosen", The
Lyttelton Times, 29
March 1851, p 6
The evolution of a
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fraser Street
Origin of name
Named after
Frederick James
Edgar Fraser
(1907?-1964).
Suburb
Papanui
Additional information
city, pp 9 & 79
First appears in street
directories in 1908.
“Naming of streets in
new subdivisions”,
The Press, 1
November 1958, p
10
Fraser was headmaster of
Papanui Primary School
1951-1963.
Named in September 1968.
Waltham
First mentioned in The Press
in 1888.
First appears in street
directories in 1892.
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February 2016
Source
Hon. George William
Spencer Lyttelton (18471913), the 4th son of George
William Lyttelton, 4th Baron
Lyttelton (1817-1876).
First appears in street
directories in 1981.
Frederick
Street
See
Page 50 of 143
Further
information
“Objection to
naming of Droitwich
Street”, The Press, 4
October 1958, p 12
Information on date Papanui Primary
of naming in a letter School
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 18
September 1968.
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 20
September 1888, p 8
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Fredrica Lane
Named after the
daughter of the
landowner where
the street was
developed.
Heathcote
Developed at 140-144 Port
Hills Road by Landform NZ.
Probably named
after Archibald
Freebairn (19251998).
Redwood
Named after
Frederick Willie
Freeman (18811969).
Mount
Pleasant
Freebairn
Street
Freeman
Street
Source
Further
information
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 6 August
2008
Named in 2008.
Report of the
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board to
the Council meeting
of 11 September
2008
Freebairn is listed in street
directories living at 11
Prestons Road in 1966.
First appears in street
directories in 1970.
Freeman, an engineer, was a
long-time Heathcote County
Council member and also
chairman for five years.
Named by the developer,
Cannon Estate Ltd.
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
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February 2016
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Page 51 of 143
Brigid Place,
Challis Place,
Clementine Lane,
Hatherly Lane,
Hilltop Lane, Janice
Place, Michael
Avenue, Osmond
Lane and Roland
Lane.
“Cannon Estate
thirty years in
development”, The
Press, 23 August
1989, p 49
“Mr. F. W.
Freeman was
pioneer of road
tunnel”, The Press,
5 November 1969,
p 22
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Frensham
Crescent
Origin of name
Frensham
Street and
Elstead
Street.
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February 2016
Suburb
Additional information
Woolston
Frensham Street and Elstead
Street first appear in street
directories in 1968.
The two streets were
amalgamated, becoming
Frensham Crescent on 23
February 1970.
Page 52 of 143
See
Source
Date of
amalgamation of the
streets in a letter sent
to the City Librarian
from the Town Clerk
dated 24 March
1970.
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Freyberg
Avenue
Godley
Avenue
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Formerly Godley
Avenue. Named
after John Robert
Godley (18141861).
Riccarton
Godley was a lawyer, writer,
administrator, coloniser and
public servant.
Re-named
Freyberg Avenue.
Named after Sir
Bernard Cyril
Freyberg (18891963).
"The street in the new
Riccarton subdivision on Mr
John Brown's subdivision
which runs off Deans Avenue
near the saleyard was named
Godley Avenue by the
Riccarton Borough Council"
on 2 September 1929.
Godley Avenue first appears
in street directories in 1930.
Re-named Freyberg Avenue
in 1941. Freyberg was a
dentist, military leader,
governor general.
[Wavell Street was originally
suggested as the new name
but councillors felt there was
danger of confusion with
Darvel Street.]
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February 2016
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See
Source
Further
information
Riccarton, the
founding borough: a
short history,
Canterbury’s
founding settlement,
p 114
View the biography
of John Robert
Godley in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
“Freyberg Street”,
The Press, 29 April
1941, p 8
View the biography
of Bernard Cyril
Freyberg in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald
"General news", The dictionary of
Press, 3 September
Canterbury
1929, p 8
biographies: G231
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Friel Lane
Named after
Edward Shayle
d'Arcy Friel
(1921-2011).
Shirley
Friel was the first President
of the St Albans Shirley
Working Men’s Club which
was opened in 1995. He was
later made a Life Member.
See
Source
Further
information
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
Agenda 19 May
2010
“Workingmen’s
club in St Albans”,
The Press, 22 July
1955, p 9
A right of way between 267
and 269A Hills Road
developed by the Club.
Named in 2010.
Burnside
Frith Place
Frome Place
Named after
St Albans
Frome, a village in
Somerset,
England.
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February 2016
First appears in street
directories in 1976.
In a subdivision of two
streets where placenames
from Somerset were used.
Named on 16 June 1975.
Page 54 of 143
Yeovil Place
"Streets named",
Pegasus Post, 9 July
1975, p 8
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Frosts Road
Named after the
Frost family.
Burwood
William Thomas Frost
Maces Road
(1854?-1888) and John Frost,
a painter, were local
residents. Tom Frost was a
trainer of Henry Mace’s
horses.
First appears in street
directories in 1903 with three
residents listed.
Fuchsia Place
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Halswell
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
Page 55 of 143
See
Source
Further
information
“New Brighton’s
early mayors closely
involved with area”,
Pegasus Post, 19
March 1975, p 2
Turf tufts and toeweights, pp 79-82
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Fulton
Avenue
Part of
Wairarapa
Terrace.
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Catherine Fulton,
née Macfarlane,
(1854?-1934).
Merivale
Mrs Fulton was the widow of
John Fulton (1850-1893), a
banker of Rangiora. She is
listed as a resident of
Wairarapa Terrace, living at
Mid-Lothian House 19001915, and of Fulton Avenue
1916-1936. The street was
formed on her land.
Fulton Avenue was named on
27 September 1915 and first
appears in street directories in
1916.
See
Source
Further
information
“General news,” The "Obituary", The
Press, 28 September Press, 28
1915, p 6
September 1893, p
5 (Obituary of John
Fulton.)
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: F403
“Street names”,
The Press, 13
September 1924, p
13
“If walls could
talk”, Avenues,
Issue 64, August
2009, pp 46-51
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February 2016
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Fusilier Place
Named after
fusiliers, a name
given to various
kinds of soldiers.
Hoon Hay
Named because it runs off
Mathers Road which is
named after John Mather
(1843-1921) who was a
captain with the 14th King’s
Hussars, a cavalry regiment
in the British Army.
Anvers Place and
Mathers Road.
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
Transport and
Roading Committee
agenda 29 June 2007
Delamain cognac
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
FW Delamain
Drive
Named after
Yaldhurst
Frederick William
Delamain (18351910).
Delamain, a horsebreeder,
Delamain and
owned Yaldhurst, a racing
Yaldhurst.
stables and stud. He named it
after his uncle’s place in
Exeter, England. He sold this
property in 1878.
He was also a descendant of
one of France's great cognacmaking families.
In the Delamain subdivision.
Named in 2007.
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February 2016
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"Obituary", Grey
River Argus, 25
May 1910, p 1
“Mr F. W.
Delamain”, The
Press, 18 May
1910, p 8
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Fyfe Road
Named after Colin Wigram
Alexander Fyfe
(1898-1951).
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Fyfe was a sheep station
cadet of Dunedin. He
graduated from the
Canterbury Flying School on
19 February 1918.
Wigram Skies
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 1 June 2010
Great Britain,
Royal Aero Club
Aviators’
Certificates, 19101950 as found on
www.ancestry.com
In the Wigram Aerodrome
subdivision by Ngāi Tahu
Property Ltd where the street
names are either of aircraft or
taken from the list of the first
100 students at the Flight
School established by Sir
Henry Wigram in 1917.
Named in 2010.
© Christchurch City Libraries
February 2016
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The Canterbury
(NZ) Aviation Co.
Ltd: the first one
hundred pilots
Wigram Skies
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Gabriel Grove
Named after Sister Halswell
Gabriel (Mary)
Black (1862?1898).
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Sister Black was one of four
Sisters to arrive in
Christchurch from Ireland in
September 1886.
Aidanfield
Biographical
information supplied
in 2007 by Fraser
Faithfull, archivist
with the Good
Shepherd
Provincialate in
Abbotsford, Victoria
in correspondence
with Margaret
Harper.
Mount Magdala :
80 years of
care…with a short
history of the
institution
The street names in the
Aidanfield subdivision are
those of former Sisters of the
Good Shepherd Order and
former residents of the Good
Shepherd Sisters’ Home at
Halswell.
Named on 31 January 2001.
Gainsborough
Street
Hoon Hay
One of the first streets to be
developed in the Hoon Hay
area. Families lived in
pioneering conditions in
small baches while building
their own houses in their
spare time.
First appears in street
directories in 1955.
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February 2016
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Other information
supplied in 2007 by
Bob Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
"Brave new life in
the suburbs", The
Press, 8 May 1993, p
9
Pitch your tents on
distant shores: a
history of the
Sisters of Good
Shepherd in
Australia,
Aotearoa/New
Zealand and Tahiti
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Galbraith
Avenue
Named after
Avonside
Augustus William
de Rohan
Galbraith (1877?1957).
Additional information
See
Galbraith was the city
engineer 1925-1941.
It is described as a “new
road” in The Press in 1944.
Originally a blind road, it was
extended to Avonside Drive
later that year.
Source
Further
information
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 11 July
1944, p 6
“Obituary”, The
Press, 12 March
1957, p 12
“Increase in rates”,
The Press, 1 August
1944, p 4
First appears in street
directories in 1946.
Gallaghan
Close
Named after
Sydney Albert
Cole Gallichan
(1899-1975?).
[His name has
been spelt
incorrectly in the
street name].
Wigram
Gallichan was a cheesemaker Wigram Skies
of Palmerston North. He
graduated from the
Canterbury Flying School on
4 May 1918.
In the Wigram Aerodrome
subdivision by Ngāi Tahu
Property Ltd where the street
names are either of aircraft or
taken from the list of the first
100 students at the Flight
School established by Sir
Henry Wigram in 1917.
Named in 2010.
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February 2016
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Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 1 June 2010
Great Britain,
Royal Aero Club
Aviators’
Certificates, 19101950 as found on
www.ancestry.com
The Canterbury
(NZ) Aviation Co.
Ltd: the first one
hundred pilots
Wigram Skies
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Gallagher
Drive
Named after
Alfred William
"Bill" Gallagher
(1911-1990).
Suburb
Additional information
See
Sir James Wattie
Gallagher was a farmer,
Estate
inventor, manufacturing
engineer, businessman and
commercial fisherman. He
developed the electric fence
for farmers in 1936–1937 and
founded the Gallagher Group
to manufacture it.
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 17 November
2015
View the biography
of Alfred William
Gallagher in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
"Names approved",
Western News, 23
November 2015, p 5
In the Sir James Wattie
Estate.
Named in 2015.
Gallop Lane
Yaldhurst
In the Noble Village
subdivision developed on the
former Applefields land in
Yaldhurst Road. The property
has historical connections
with the breeding and racing
of standard breed horses.
Named in 2011.
Galway
Avenue
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Bryndwr
Named by the Waimairi
County Council on 1 May
1935.
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Apple Orchard
Lane, George Noble
Road, Founders
Lane, Sir John
McKenzie Avenue,
Stirrup Lane, Stud
Road. Also Noble
Village.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 15 August
2011
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 23 August
2011
"General news", The
Press, 2 May 1935, p
10
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Gambia
Street
Origin of name
Part of Loftus Named after the
Street.
HMNZS Gambia.
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Papanui
HMNZS Gambia, launched
in 1940, was New Zealand’s
largest cruiser. It saw active
service with the British
Pacific Fleet during World
War II.
Loftus Street and
Tillman Avenue.
Papanui Heritage
Group
Chairman's report
to the water supply
and works
committee,
Christchurch City
Council, 14
November 1945,
held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 180
"Birth", Star, 27
April 1896, p 2
A Papanui war memorial
street.
First appears in street
directories in 1946.
Gamblins
Road
Named after
Joseph Gamblin
(1820?-1896).
Garden Road
St Martins
Gamblin was a bricklayer of
St Martins.
First appears in street
directories in 1905.
Fendalton
First mentioned in The Press
in 1880 when “53 beautiful
villa sites adjoining Mr
Wilkin’s residence at
Holmwood” are advertised
for sale.
First appears in street
directories in 1898.
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“Advertisements”,
The Press, 7 October
1880, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Gardenhill
Lane
Named because,
when Richard
May Downes
Morten (18771950) and his
brother, Arthur
Roscoe Vernon
Morten (18781931), sold off
land from the
Mount Pleasant
run in 1912,
market gardens
were established
and vegetables
and early flowers
grown for the
market.
Redcliffs
The brothers were the sons of Morten Settlement
Richard May Morten (18231909).
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First appears in street
directories in 1995.
See
Source
Further
information
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: M652
“Mr R. M.
Morten”, The
Press, 21 August
1909, p 10
"Death of Mr A. V.
R. Morten", The
Press, 13 April
1931, p 14
Page 63 of 143
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Gardiners
Road
Named after
Henry Dent
Gardiner (18281909).
Bishopdale,
Harewood
Gardiner owned land in the
Styx area but had moved
away by 1865.
Garforth
Green
Named after
Samuel Garforth
(1839-1901).
First appears in street
directories in 1901 but
mentioned there as early as
1887.
Halswell
Garforth was a member and
also chairman of the Halswell
Road Board 1885-1901. In
1870 he purchased Spreydon
Lodge.
Named in 2001.
See
Source
Further
information
The Styx story: a
study of a
Christchurch River,
p 32-33
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G36
Settling near the
Styx River, pp 21 &
33-34
“Obituary”, Star, 5
February 1909, p 3
"Obituary", The
Press, 8 February
1909, p 7
Riccarton/Wigram
“Obituary”, Star,
21 June 1901, p 4
Community Board
agenda January 2001 G R Macdonald
Riccarton/Wigram
dictionary of
Community Board
Canterbury
agenda 3 April 2002 biographies: G45
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 262
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Page 64 of 143
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Garlands
Road
Named after
Edward Garland
(1824?-1893).
Hillsborough,
Woolston
Garland operated the Rocky
Point Quarry in Port Hills
Road.
Garland’s Creek first appears
in the Star in a report of a
meeting of the Heathcote
Road Board in 1877.
The road linking Garland’s
dairy farm, Hillsborough,
with Opawa Road and the
city, became Garlands Road.
First appears in street
directories in 1892.
See
Source
Further
information
Z Arch 525
Along the hills: a
history of the
Heathcote Road
Board and the
Heathcote County
Council 18641989, p 14
“The Heathcote
Road Board”, Star,
28 April 1877, p 2
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 162
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G47
"Fire destroys old
house", The Press,
3 November 1958,
p 10
“GarlandHillsborough’s first
family”, The Press,
10 January 1976, p
10
Garnett
Avenue
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Spreydon
First appears in street
directories in 1938.
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Garreg Road
Garreg is a Welsh Bryndwr,
word meaning: the Fendalton
stone.
Additional information
See
Source
The Jeffreys family owned a
cottage in the village of
Garreg in North Wales.
Bryndwr, Jeffreys
Road, Glandovey
Road and other
Welsh names in the
area.
Fendall’s legacy: a
history of Fendalton
and north-west
Christchurch, p 77
First appears in street
directories in 1894.
Garth
Terrace
Walkers
Valley Road
and Walker
Terrace.
Cashmere
Further
information
Both Walkers Valley Road
and Walker Terrace appear
for the first time in street
directories in 1928.
Re-named Garth Terrace
which first appears in street
directories in 1950.
Gartrell Drive
Named after
Ernest Charles
Gartrell (1918?1986).
Wigram
Air Commodore Gartrell was Wigram Skies
Commanding Officer at
Wigram December 1965January 1966.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 6 August
2013
Named to continue the theme
in the Wigram Skies
subdivision of naming streets
after people involved in the
air force in New Zealand.
Minutes of the
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board 6
August 2013
Named in 2013.
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Page 66 of 143
“Obituary”, The
Press, 14 January
1968, p 7
Wigram: the
birthplace of
military aviation in
New Zealand
Wigram Skies
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Garvins Road Garvin's Road Named after
Samuel Garvin
(1873?-1939).
Suburb
Additional information
Hornby
Garvin was a farmer of
Sockburn.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1931 when the progress of
the formation of Garvin's
Road was discussed at a
meeting of the Paparua
County Council.
See
Source
Further
information
"County Councils",
The Press, 5
September 1931, p 9
First appears in street
directories in 1957.
Gasson Street
Part of
Named after the
Madras
Gasson family.
Street, the
section of the
street south of
Moorhouse
Avenue.
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Sydenham
The Gasson family were
early settlers in this area.
Charles Gasson (1846?1905), a carpenter, lived with
his wife, Harriet, at Sixth
Street (later Stanley Street).
Named Gasson Street on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Page 67 of 143
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
“Death”, Star, 28
July 1905, p 3
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
“New street
names”, The Press,
24 July 1948, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Gates Lane
Named after
Alfred Charles
Harold Gates
(1878?-1937).
Woolston
Gates was a gardener of 47
Isis Street. His widow,
Hannah Elizabeth Gates
(1881?-1945), lived on at the
property until her death.
Radley Park
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 8
November 1943, p 1
Saxon Street
“The Heathcote
Road Board”, Star,
28 April 1877, p 2
Further
information
Developed in Gates' block
which is mentioned in The
Press in 1843.
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
Gatherer
Street
Victoria
Street
Formerly Victoria
Street. Named
after HM Queen
Victoria (18191901).
Re-named
Gatherer Street.
Named after
James Gatherer
(1830-1877) and
his wife, Margaret
Gatherer (1837?1900).
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Phillipstown
Victoria Street first appears
in street directories in 1892,
running off Tuam Street. It
ran parallel with Albert
Street, later Saxon Street and
was an unformed street.
James Gatherer, a horse
dealer, is mentioned in the
Star in a report of a meeting
of the Heathcote Road Board
in 1877. Sections in
Gatherer’s Paddock, Cashel
Street East, are advertised in
the Star for sale in 1879.
Tenders were called for the
formation of Gatherer Street
Page 68 of 143
“Advertisements”,
Star, 8 March 1879,
p1
“Advertisements”,
Star, 15 July 1880, p
2
“Advertisements”,
Star, 6 November
1884, p 2
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G75
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Information supplied
in 2008 by Bob
Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
View the biography
of George Gatonby
Stead in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
in 1880.
In 1884 Mrs Gatherer is
listed living at Strickland
House in Strickland Street.
First appears in street
directories in 1906.
Gatonby
Place
Named after
George Gatonby
Stead (18411908).
Avonhead
Stead was a grain merchant,
racehorse owner and breeder
and businessman. His son,
Edgar Fraser Stead (18811949), built a substantial
house at Ilam which is now
the University of Canterbury
staff club. It was the centre of
a property of some 53 acres
on the banks of the Avon
River.
First appears in street
directories in 1987.
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“A strenuous
career”, The Press,
30 April 1908, p 8
“Deaths”, Star, 30
April 1908, p 3
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: S700
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Gayhurst
Road
Named after
Gayhurst, the
home of Henry
Joseph Campbell
Jekyll (18441913) at 50 River
Road.
Burwood,
Dallington.
Jekyll farmed in Dallington
Dallington
and named his home after
Gayhurst, a village in the
Unitary District of Milton
Keynes, England. He worked
tirelessly for the Christchurch
Beautifying Association.
Source
Early Dallington, p 2 G R Macdonald
dictionary of
“Clifton Bay
Canterbury
recognised”, The
biographies: J92
Press, 17 March
1961, p 21
First appears in street
directories in 1903.
Named after the
Gazelle, a brig.
Redcliffs
Continues the theme in the
Daring Lane and
subdivision of naming streets Rifleman Lane.
after the small boats and
scows that used to cross the
Sumner bar from Lyttelton
and deliver goods to Sumner
and Ferrymead and up the
Heathcote River.
Developed off 85 Glenstrae
Road.
Named in 1998.
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"Mr H. J. C.
Jekyll", The Press,
27 February 1913,
p4
Dallington
Community News,
3rd quarter 2005, p
3
[At first the road went only
from the bridge to
McBratneys Road and was
extended to meet Birchfield
Avenue in 1961.]
Gazelle Lane
Further
information
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
agenda 1 April 1998
Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board
Agenda 3 September
2003
New Zealand
shipwrecks : 195
years of disaster at
sea, p 255
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Geelong Place
Burnside
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
George Street
Named after
Riccarton
George Thompson
Mulcock (18701944).
Mulcock was a son of
Edward Mulcock (18371915), owner of the land
where this street was formed.
See
Source
Further
information
Dallas Street,
Elizabeth Street,
Maxwell Street and
Peverel Street.
Information supplied
in 2008 by Paul
Mulcock in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
“Obituary”, The
Press, 4 August
1915, Page 6
First appears in street
directories in 1912.
George Bellew
Road
Named after
William George
Patrick Bellew
(1944-).
George Noble
Road
Named after
George Bennett
Noble (18981983).
Bellew was chief executive
officer at Christchurch
International Airport 19882005.
Yaldhurst
Noble was the head trainer at
the Roydon Lodge stud.
Apple Orchard
Lane, Founders
Lane, Gallop Lane,
In the Noble Village
subdivision developed on the Sir John McKenzie
Avenue, Stirrup
former Applefields land in
Yaldhurst Road. The property Lane, Stud Road.
Also Noble Village.
has historical connections
with the breeding and racing
of standard breed horses.
Named in 2011.
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“Obituary”, The
Press, 25 October
1944, p 6
“Challenge calling
‘mellow Bellew’”,
The Press, 17
August 2005, p C6
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 15 August
2011
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 23 August
2011
George Noble
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
George Oliver
Place
George
Seymour
Quay
Named after the
Sir George
Seymour.
Suburb
Additional information
Kainga
Formed on land belonging to
the North Canterbury
Catchment Board.
"New streets", The
Papanui Herald, 18
August 1987, p 1
Named in 1987.
Information supplied
in 2008 by Bob
Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
Lyttelton
See
Source
The Sir George Seymour was
one of the First Four Ships
that arrived in Lyttelton in
December 1850.
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
Georgia Lane
Casebrook
Developed at 142A Highsted
Road. The name was
proposed by the owner.
Named in 1998.
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Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 1 July 1998
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Georgina
Street
Named after Lake
Georgina, a small
lake in the
Canterbury high
country.
Suburb
Additional information
The development company
chose a theme of Canterbury
lakes, rivers, lagoons and
other water bodies for the
street names in the
subdivision.
In stage 1 of the Prestons
Park subdivision on the south
side of Prestons Road,
opposite the Prestons
subdivision.
Named in 2015.
Gerald
Connolly
Place
Named after
Gerald Vincent
Connolly (19281995).
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February 2016
Hornby
Connolly was a company
director.
Formed post-1997.
Page 73 of 143
See
Source
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 21
September 2015
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 21
September 2015
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Geraldine
Street
Fitzgerald
Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after
Gertrude Eva
Webb (19111991).
Re-named Geraldine Street
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
The FitzGerald family came
from Ireland.
Source
Further
information
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
View the biography
of James Edward
FitzGerald in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
“New street
names”, The Press,
24 July 1948, p 2
Avondale
Gertrude Webb worked for
the Christchurch Drainage
Board for many years as a
cleaner, and the street was
named after her to show the
affection she was held in by
her employers.
The Christchurch Drainage
Board owned an area of lowlying land in Avondale which
they filled up with dredgings
from the river so the land
could be subdivided and built
on.
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See
Fitzgerald Street first appears Fitzgerald Avenue
in street directories in 1890.
Formerly
Fitzgerald Street.
Named after the
FitzGerald family.
Re-named
Geraldine Street.
Named after the
clan name of the
FitzGerald family.
Gertrude
Place
Additional information
Page 74 of 143
De Courcy Place,
Hunt Lane, Mervyn
Drive, Ogilvie
Place, Scoular Place
and Waddell Lane.
Information supplied
in 2007 by Paul
Baldwin,
Christchurch City
Council, in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
Christchurch,
swamp to city: a
short history of the
Christchurch
Drainage Board
1875-1989, pp 9293
"Board may restrict
sewage flows", The
Press, 29 November
1984
"Subdivision
auctioned", The
Press, 20 February
1984
"Property market",
The Press, 2 June
1984
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
The Board named the streets
formed there and former
board and staff members of
the Drainage Board were
among those honoured in the
naming of streets. At the time
of naming it was intended to
have 11 streets and cul-desacs in the new subdivision.
Named on 21 November
1984.
First appears in street
directories in 1987.
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February 2016
Page 75 of 143
See
Source
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Gibbon Street
Named after
Edward Gibbon
(1737-1794).
Sydenham
Gibbon was author of The
History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire.
One of the “poets and
writers” streets of Sydenham,
Addington and Waltham
named by a committee of the
Sydenham Borough Council
on 19 January 1880.
First appears in street
directories in 1887.
Made a public street from 1
January 1888.
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February 2016
Page 76 of 143
See
Source
Report of the street
naming committee,
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, p 217,
held at Christchurch
City Council
archives.
“Borough Council”,
Star, 20 January
1880, p 3
“Sydenham”, The
Press, 22 December
1887, p 6
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Gibbs Place
Named after the
Gibbs family.
Halswell
Henry Gibbs (1852-1929)
was a farmer of Halswell,
where he lived with his wife,
Elizabeth. Their sons,
Benjamin William Harold
Gibbs (1884-1968) and
Arthur Roland Gibbs (18971978), owned a threshing
mill at Halswell. Arthur
Gibbs and his wife, Ethel
Mary Gibbs (1901-1948),
lived at 29 Nicholls Road.
1984 electoral rolls list a
number of Gibbs family
members still living at that
address.
See
Source
Further
information
A short history of
Halswell, pp 44,
113-114
"Deaths", The
Press, 3 July 1929,
p1
First appears in street
directories in 1981.
Gibson Drive
Hornby
First appears in street
directories in 1977.
Gilbert Place
Sydenham
Named in 1957.
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“Street naming
practices”, The
Press, 1 June 1957, p
4
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Gilberthorpes
Road
Named after
Charles
Gilberthorpe
(1828-1915) and
his wife Ann
(1833-1921).
Hei Hei,
Islington
The Gilberthorpes emigrated
from Nottinghamshire on the
Mary Ann in 1859 and
farmed in what is now Hei
Hei.
Gilby Street
Travers Street Formerly Travers
Street. Named
after William
Thomas Locke
Travers (18191903).
Re-named Gilby
Street. May have
been named after
Charles Gilby
(1856-1946).
Linwood
Travers was a barrister and
solicitor. He practised in
Christchurch 1860-1868 and
for several years was the
member of parliament for
Christchurch City.
Travers Street is first
mentioned in the Star in
1881.
First appears in street
directories in 1887
Gilby was a schoolmaster and
Page 78 of 143
Source
Further
information
Information supplied Gilberthorpe
cottage
in 2003 by Brian
Gilberthorpe.
Diary of Ann
“Templeton”, Press, Gilberthorpe on
13 September 1875, board the May
p3
Ann, 1859
First mentioned in The Press
in 1875 when the formation
of 70 chains of it was
discussed by the Templeton
Road Board.
Re-named Gilby Street on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
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February 2016
See
Gilby area
“Local & General”,
Star, 5 May 1881, p
2
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: T367
Our Environment
Issue 39 Spring 2004 “Death of Mr W. T.
Gilby neighbourhood L. Travers”, The
Press, 28 April
improvement plan, p
1903, p 3
9
“Death of Mr W. L.
"Street names
Travers”, Otago
changed: City
Witness, 29 April
council approves
1903, p 24
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3 The Cyclopedia of
New Zealand. Vol
3, pp 183-184
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
also on the staff of the The
Lyttelton Times. He founded
Gilby’s Commercial College
which survived until 1970.
Further
information
Ettie: a life of Ettie
Rout, pp 27, 32,
201
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
“New street
names”, The Press,
24 July 1948, p 2
Gilders Grove
Named after
Digby Te’Ohia
Leslie Gilders
(1896-1980).
Heathcote
Valley
Gilders was a private
surveyor practising in
Christchurch 1930s-1970s.
He surveyed the subdivision
which created the allotment
subdivided to create the
street.
A subdivision at 19 Avoca
Valley Road by W. J.
Mauger.
Named in 1999.
Giles Place
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Shirley
First appears in street
directories in 1976.
Page 79 of 143
Spreydon/Heathcote
Community Board
agenda 3 August
1999
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Gillatt
Gardens
Could have been
named after
Charles Henry
Gillatt (d. 1971).
Halswell
Gillatt was a farmer of
Halswell.
[The source does not give his
name, saying only that the
street is named after a wellknown market gardener.]
See
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 2 July 2003
Named in 2003.
Gilmour
Terrace
Named after Dr
Bertram
Hazelwood
Gilmour (18881945).
Gilwell Street
Lyttelton
Dr Gilmour was a doctor who
practised in Lyttelton for 25
years.
First appears in street
directories in 1950.
Burwood
Named on 15 March 1961.
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
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The story of
Lyttelton, 18491949, p 145
Page 80 of 143
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 17
March 1961.
“Obituary”, The
Press, 24 May
1945, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Ginaty Lane
Named after the
Very Rev. Dean
Laurentias Maria
Ginaty (1836?1911).
Halswell
Ginaty was the Vicar-General Aidanfield
of the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Christchurch. He
was involved in fundraising
activities to purchase the land
at Halswell and build the
Mount Magdala Home which
was opened in 1888.
The street names in the
Aidanfield subdivision are
those of former Sisters of the
Good Shepherd Order and
former residents of the Good
Shepherd Sisters’ Home at
Halswell.
Named on 31 January 2001.
See
Source
Further
information
“Haven for ‘fallen
women’ to be
housing
subdivision”, NZ
Catholic, 5
November 2000, p
13
Mount Magdala :
80 years of
care…with a short
history of the
institution
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 31 January
2001
Pitch your tents on
distant shores: a
history of the
Sisters of Good
Shepherd in
Australia,
Aotearoa/New
Zealand and Tahiti
“Obituary”, The
Press, 5 June 1911,
p7
“Obituary”,
Evening Post, 6
June 1911, p 2
Held firm by faith,
pp 152-
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Girvan Street
Named after
Fendalton
Girvan, a coastal
resort in
Strathclyde, southwest Scotland.
Additional information
Named to continue the theme
of naming Riccarton streets
after places in Ayrshire,
Scotland, from whence the
Deans family had originated.
First appears in street
directories in 1943.
See
Source
Further
information
"Street names", The
Press, 25 June 1948,
p9
"Street names",
The Press, 25 June
1948, p 6
"University street",
The Press, 30 June
1948, p 2
[In June 1948 the Waimairi
County Council wanted to rename this street University
Street when 24 streets in the
County were re-named. This
did not happen after protests
from residents, among them
John Deans.]
Glade Avenue Avon Glade
Road and
Avonglade
Street.
Named after Avon Richmond
Glade, a house in
Stanmore Road.
Avon Glade Road is first
mentioned in The Press in
1878 when land is advertised
for sale there.
Re-named Glade Avenue on
24 May 1926 when 21 streets
were re-named.
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“Advertisements”,
The Press, 1 June
1878, p 3
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 28 May
1926, p 17
“Street names”,
The Press, 22
February 1926, p
10
“Street names”,
The Press, 26 May
1926, p 11
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Gladson
Street
Suburb
Additional information
Sockburn
Named by Ann Nora "Annie" Algidus Street
Murray-Aynsley (1886-1973)
on 26 August 1958 when she
subdivided her land.
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
Gladstone
Quay
Gasworks
Road was
incorporated
into
Gladstone
Quay.
Named after
William Ewart
Gladstone (18091898).
Lyttelton
Gladstone was four times
British Prime Minister and
also brother-in-law to Lord
Lyttelton.
Gladstone Quay is mentioned
in an obituary in The Press in
1885.
First appears in street
directories in 1916.
In 1913 the street known as
Gasworks Road was renamed Gladstone Quay.
Glamis Place
Named after
Cashmere
Glamis, a castle in
Scotland.
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First appears in street
directories in 1966.
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See
Source
Information supplied
by Bob Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council, in 2010.
"Obituary", The
Press, 30 May 1885,
p3
“Lyttelton”, The
Press, 9 July 1913, p
2
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Glandovey
Road
Named after the
Fendalton,
Anglicised version Strowan.
of the name of the
Jeffreys' castle,
Glandyfi Castle, in
Cardiganshire,
Wales.
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Charles Alured Jeffreys
(1821-1904) retired to this
castle in 1880 after leaving
New Zealand.
Bryndwr, Jeffreys
Road, Idris Road
and other Welsh
names in the
Fendalton/Bryndwr
area.
Fendall’s legacy: a
history of Fendalton
and north-west
Christchurch, p 7476
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: J85
Glandovey Road became a
public road on 24 June 1881.
Sections for sale in "the
Glandovey Road" in Bryndwr
are advertised in The Press in
1890.
First appears in street
directories in 1894.
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"Advertisements",
The Press, 4
November 1890, p 8
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Glasgow
Street
Named after
Glasgow, a city in
Scotland.
Phillipstown
Named by John Alexander
Redpath (1846?-1942) in
1909 when he subdivided his
land there and laid out the
new streets.
Newcastle Street
“Drainage Board”,
Star, 26 October
1887, p 4
“Obituary”, The
Press, 12 December
1942, p 6
“City Council”, The
Press, 2 November
1909, p 8
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: R84
He founded the firm of J A
Redpath & Sons Ltd., coal
merchants.
Redpath’s wife was born
Rose Ann Glasgow (1843?1921) and the street could
also have been named in her
honour.
First appears in street
directories in 1913.
Glasnevin
Drive
Named after
Glasnevin in
Ireland.
Casebrook
The developers wanted all the Glasnevin
streets in the Glasnevin
subdivision to have names
associated with Dublin.
Named in 1997.
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“Street names”, The
Press, 2 September
1930, p 12
[This article lists
Harrow Street as
named by Redpath.
This is incorrect as
Harrow Street was
named much earlier
and is not mentioned
in the 1909 article].
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 29 October
1997
“Glasnevin”, The
Press, 17 June
1998, p 34
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Glastonbury
Drive
Named after
Glastonbury in
Somerset,
England.
Burwood
Glastonbury is in a reclaimed
lowland area, similar to this
area. It is also reputed to be
where Sir Lancelot of
Knights of the Round Table
fame lived, hence the naming
of later streets in the
subdivision.
Excalibur Place,
Gunwelloe Lane,
Mullion Lane, St
Keverne Close,
Sedgemoor Close
and Wedmore
Close. Also
Quantock Place.
Also Travis Country
Estate.
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
Gleig Place
Named after the
George Robert
Gleig (17961888).
Spreydon
Gleig was a member of the
Canterbury Association from
27 March 1848 until he
resigned 25 November 1851.
Several streets in this area
have names associated with
the Canterbury Association
and, especially, the Lyttelton
family because they were
formed on Rural Section 76,
700 acres on the "Lower
Lincoln Road, Heathcote
Bridge" purchased by
Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl
Spencer (1798-1857) and
Conway Lucas Rose (1817-
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Bewdley Street,
Bredon Lane, Clent
Lane, Evesham
Crescent,
Frankleigh Street,
Glynne Crescent,
Lyttelton Street,
Stanbury Street
(formerly Droitwich
Street), Stourbridge
Street, Sumner
Street and
Wychbury Street.
Also Hagley Park.
Source
Further
information
The Canterbury
Association: a study
of its members’
connections, pp 3334 & 67
A history of
Canterbury, Vol 1,
pp 242-245
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 2
"Rural Sections
chosen", The
Lyttelton Times, 29
March 1851, p 6
The evolution of a
“Suicide of Lord
Lyttelton”, Evening
Post, 22 May 1876,
2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
1910).
Spencer’s interest in the land
was passed on to his nephew,
the Hon. George William
Spencer Lyttelton (18471913), the 4th son of George
William Lyttelton, 4th Baron
Lyttelton (1817-1876).
First appears in street
directories in 1950.
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Source
city, pp 9 & 79
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Glenarm
Terrace
Landsdowne
Terrace
Origin of name
Suburb
Named after the
Dallington
Glenarm Kennels
which, in turn,
were named after
Glenarm Castle,
the ancestral home
of the Earls of
Antrim in
Northern Ireland.
Additional information
See
Landsdowne Terrace is first
mentioned in The Press in
1892 when land for sale there
is advertised.
First appears in street
directories in 1903.
Re-named Glenarm Terrace
in June 1948 when 24 streets
in the Waimairi County were
re-named.
Source
Further
information
Early Dallington, p
10
View the biography
of Hiram Hunter in
the Dictionary of
New Zealand
Biography
"Advertisements",
The Press, 21 April
1892, p 8
"Street names", The
Press, 25 June 1948,
p9
Hiram Hunter (1874-1966), a
labourer, teamster, trade
unionist and local politician,
bred dogs at the Glenarm
Kennels. They were on his
land on the eastern side of,
and towards, the river end of
Gayhurst Road.
Glen Arrife
Place
Named after Glen
Arrife, a high
country station in
the Rakaia River
catchment.
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Halswell
The streets in the Broken Run Broken Run,
subdivision are all named
Cromdale Place,
after high country stations.
Grassington Lane,
Highpeak Place,
Named by the developers,
Longspur Avenue
Brian Gillman Ltd.
and Ryton Way.
Named in 2005.
Also Broken Run.
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Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 12 July 2005
"Obituary", The
Press, 11 May
1966, p 10
"Street names",
The Press, 25 June
1948, p 6
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Glenbarr
Lane
Named after
Glenbarr, a village
in Argyll and
Bute, Scotland. It
lies on the west
coast of the
Kintyre peninsula.
Glen Bridge
Lane
Named because
there is a bridge
there and looking
over the bridge
through the trees
gives the
impression of a
glen.
Glenconnor
Place
Glencullen
Drive
Named after
Glencullen, a
suburb of Dublin.
Suburb
Additional information
In Stage 6 and 7 of the
Kintyre Estates
Kintyre Estates subdivision,
where streets are named after
names and features in the
locality of Kintyre in
Scotland.
Named in 2015.
Bishopdale
A right-of -way at 3A
Crofton Road.
Developed by Netheravon
Holdings.
Source
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 17 March
2015
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 17 March
2015
Fendalton/Waimairi
Community Board
agenda 8 May 2007
Named in 2007.
Burwood
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
Casebrook
In the Glasnevin subdivision Glasnevin
where all the roads are named
after suburbs, localities or
features in the vicinity of
Dublin.
Named in 1998.
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Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 1 April 1998
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Gleneagles
Terrace
Probably named
Ilam
after Gleneagles, a
glen in the Ochil
Hills of Perth and
Kinross in
Scotland.
Additional information
Developed by Maurice R.
Carter Ltd. Formed on part of
the driveway at 58 Burnside
Road (later Memorial
Avenue) into a large house
named Hatherley.
First appears in street
directories in 1958.
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Source
Further
information
"Maurice R. Carter
Ltd. built "Home of
Year", The Press, 10
November 1958, pp
16-18
"Foremost
developer and
donor", The Press,
22 October 2005, p
D19
“Maurice Carter
leaves behind
immense legacy”,
The Press, 10 May
2011, p A3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Glenelg Spur
Named after
Hillsborough
Glenelg, the home
there of Cecil
Claude Morton
Ollivier (18781935).
Additional information
Ollivier was an accountant,
and at the time of his death,
one of the city’s best-known
businessmen. He had bought
the house, then called Raroa,
from George Bowron in
1922, and re-named it
Glenelg. The driveway
leading up to the house
became Glenelg Spur.
After Ollivier’s death,
Glenelg was purchased by the
trustees of the King George V
Memorial Fund Board, and,
from 1 August 1939, it
became a permanent health
camp.
First appears in street
directories in 1946.
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Source
Further
information
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, pp
162-164
“Obituary”, The
Press, 27 July
1935, p 18
“Site for health
camp”, The Press,
16 April 1938, p 10
“Permanent health
camp”, The Press,
29 July 1939, p 7
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Glenharrow
Avenue
Named after
Avonhead
Charles Alexander
Harrow (19111989).
Additional information
See
Source
Harrow bought 19 acres of
land in 1944 which had
formerly belonged to Kent
Lodge at 35 Yaldhurst Road.
Four generations of his
family have been berry
growers in Christchurch.
Harrowdale Drive
and Kent Lodge
Avenue.
Information supplied
in 2008 by Brian and
Ruth Murphy,
owners of Kent
Lodge, in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
First appears in street
directories in 1970.
Glenmore
Avenue
Casebrook
First appears in street
directories in 1962.
Glen Oaks
Drive
Northwood
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.
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Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 29 March
2000
Report of the
Shirley/Papanui
Community Board to
the Council 19 April
2000
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Glenrowan
Avenue
Named after
Glenrowan, the
town in Australia
where Ned Kelly
(1855?-1880) was
captured.
Avondale
Kelly was Australia’s most
famous bushranger.
According to family legend,
Eliza Emily Muirson (1856?1943) fed Kelly while he was
on the run. Mrs Muirson was
the grandmother of Reginald
Gordon Vivian Muirson
(1913-1990), the builder of
houses in this street,
Edna Street,
Reginald Street,
Sharlick Street,
Vivian Street and
Woolley Street.
Information supplied
in 2008 by Mardi
Muirson in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
Mardi Muirson is
married to Reginald
Muirson’s nephew.
Further
information
First appears in street
directories in 1970.
Glenroy
Street
London Street
and Graham
Street.
Woolston
London Street first appears in
the Star in a report of a
meeting of the Heathcote
Road Board in 1877 and first
appears in street directories in
1887.
Re-named Graham Street in
1922.
Re-named Glenroy Street on
1 September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
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“Street names”,
The Press, 13
September 1924, p
13
"General news", The
Press, 14 February
“New names for
1922, p 6
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
"Street names
“The Heathcote
Road Board”, Star,
28 April 1877, p 2
changed: City
“New street
council approves
names”, The Press,
final list", The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
24 August 1948, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Glenstrae
Road
Named after
Redcliffs
Glenstrae, their
home in Scotland,
by Francis "Frank"
Edward McGregor
(1916-1981) and
his wife.
McGregor was a local
photographer and a resident
of the street in 1960.
Named after a
neighbouring
farm.
In stages 1-4 of the Highsted
Residential subdivision. The
names were suggested by the
developer.
Glenturret
Drive
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Gloaming, a
racehorse.
Sockburn
Gloaming was bred in
Victoria and was trained in
New Zealand. His racing
career lasted from 1918-1927
and he died in 1932 aged 17
years.
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
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Source
Further
information
Sumner to
Ferrymead: a
Christchurch history,
p 207
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
Named in 2014.
Gloaming
Place
See
Broadstairs Avenue,
Farrelly Place,
Faversham Lane,
Grayshott Avenue
and Tullet Park
Drive.
Shirley/Papanui
Highsted
Community Board
Residential
agenda 17 December
2014
Gloaming, the
wonder horse
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Globe Bay
Drive
Named after the
NZ Cup pacer,
Globe Bay.
Templeton
Named by local horse trainer,
Jack Carmichael, and Peter
Petersen of the Templeton
Residents’ Association.
Locals had asked that the
names of prominent pacers
and trotters be used for street
names because of the
numerous training
establishments in the area.
See
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 12 April
2005
Developed by Suburban
Estates Ltd.
Named in 2005.
Gloucester
Street
The section of Named after
road between Gloucester, an
Woodham
English bishopric.
Road and the
Avon River
was formerly
named
Delamain
Road and was
incorporated
into
Gloucester
Street.
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Linwood,
Central city,
Avonside
One of the original streets of
Christchurch named in 1850
by surveyors Captain Joseph
Thomas (b. 1803?) and
Edward Jollie (1825-1894).
The names were taken from
bishoprics listed in Burke's
Peerage.
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1852
when 1/4 acre sections are
advertised for sale there.
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Reproduction of
Edward Jollie's 1850
map of the proposed
city. Department of
Lands and Survey,
Christchurch.
Historical Maps
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: D193,
J169 and T144
“Obituary”, The
Press, 9 August
1894, p 5e
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton Times,
“Obituary”, Star, 9
7 August 1852, p 2
August 1894, p 1
Reminiscences of a
View the biography
surveyor, runholder of Joseph Thomas
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
The section of Gloucester
Street from Woodham Road
to the Avon River was named
Delamain Road before 1916.
Named after Frederick
William Delamain (18351910) who owned part of
Rural Section 125, 100 acres
in “River Avon, Slaughterhouse Road” (later Woodham
Road), land originally
purchased by G. A. C.
Dashwood.
Delamain Road does not
appear in street directories
but is mentioned in the Star
in 1907.
See
Source
Further
information
and politician in
Canterbury and
Otago, 1841-1865,
pp 28-29
in the Dictionary of
New Zealand
Biography.
Early days of
Canterbury, p 27
The evolution of a
city, p 13
Old Christchurch in
picture and story, pp
50-51
“Street names in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 6 December
1952, p 3
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 4
“Rural Sections
chosen”, The
Lyttelton Times, 26
April 1851, p 3
"Today's
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“Mr F. W.
Delamain”, The
Press, 18 May
1910, p 8
"Obituary", Grey
River Argus, 25
May 1910, p 1
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Advertisements",
Star, 4 May 1907, p
6
Early Dallington, p
10
Glovers Road
Glue Place
Glover's Road Named after
Hawley William
Glover (1836?1910).
Halswell
Glover was a farmer of
Halswell.
"Advertisements",
The Press, 6
November 1877, p 1
Glover's Road is first
mentioned in The Press in
1877.
Named after
Somerfield
William Percy
Glue (1888-1980).
"Deaths", Star, 16
September 1910, p
3
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G220
Glue was a city councillor
1941-1971.
“Names for new
streets”, The Press,
22 September 1960,
p 14
Named in 1960.
“Mr Glue served
Chch for 30 years”,
The Press, 17 July
1980, p 4
Fendalton Houses
of 1920s and 1930s
- the Glue brothers’
contribution
Glynne
Crescent
Named after
Mary, Baroness
Lyttelton, née
Glynne, (1813-
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Spreydon
Mary was the wife of Sir
George William Lyttelton,
4th Lord Lyttelton, Baron of
Frankley (1817-1876). He
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Bewdley Street,
Bredon Lane, Clent
Lane, Evesham
Crescent,
The Canterbury
Association: a study
of its members’
connections, p 67
A history of
Canterbury, Vol 1,
pp 242-245
“Suicide of Lord
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
1857).
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
was a member of the
Canterbury Association from
1848.
Frankleigh Street,
Gleig Place,
Lyttelton Street,
Stanbury Street
(formerly Droitwich
Street), Stourbridge
Street, Sumner
Street and
Wychbury Street.
Also Hagley Park.
Province of
Lyttelton”, Evening
Canterbury, New
Post, 22 May 1876,
Zealand : list of
2
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 2
Several streets in this area
have names associated with
the Lyttelton family because
they were formed on Rural
Section 76, 700 acres on the
"Lower Lincoln Road,
Heathcote Bridge" purchased
by Frederick Spencer, 4th
Earl Spencer (1798-1857)
and Conway Lucas Rose
(1817-1910). Spencer’s
interest in the land was
passed on to his nephew, the
Hon. George William
Spencer Lyttelton (18471913), the 4th son of George
William Lyttelton, 4th Baron
Lyttelton (1817-1876).
First appears in street
directories in 1950.
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"Rural Sections
chosen", The
Lyttelton Times, 29
March 1851, p 6
The evolution of a
city, pp p & 79
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Godfrey Place
Named after
Stuart Palairet
Godfrey (19011959).
Ilam
Godfrey was an old boy of
Christ’s College and a New
Zealand rowing
representative. He was wellknown for his work for the
school and for the Christ’s
College Old Boys’
Association. He became a
fellow of the school in 1947.
Corfe Street, Hare
Street, Holderness
Place, Parr Place,
Sayers Crescent,
Tripp Place,
Tyndale Place and
Worthy Street.
Source
Further
information
“Obituary”, The
Press, 14 July
1959, p 14
One of the streets in a
subdivision formed on land
belonging to Christ's College.
First appears in street
directories in 1987.
Godley Drive
Named after John
Robert Godley
(1814-1861).
Sumner
Godley was a lawyer, writer,
administrator, coloniser and
public servant. He is
described on his statue in
Cathedral Square as the
founder of Canterbury.
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
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View the biography
of John Robert
Godley in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Godley Quay
Named after John
Robert Godley
(1814-1861).
Lyttelton
Godley was a lawyer, writer,
administrator, coloniser and
public servant. He is
described on his statue in
Cathedral Square as the
founder of Canterbury.
See
Lyttelton: port and
town : an illustrated
history, p 28
Named after the
godwit, a sea-bird
that frequents the
south shore.
Southshore
One of six streets running in
alphabetical order from north
to south intersecting
Rockinghorse Road.
Named in September 1955.
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Further
information
View the biography
of John Robert
Godley in the
Dictionary of New
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton Times, Zealand Biography.
7 August 1852, p 2
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1852
when 1/4 acre sections are
advertised for sale there.
Godwit Street
Source
Caspian Street,
Heron Street,
Penguin Street,
Plover Street and
Tern Street.
“Names chosen for
streets”, The Press,
20 September 1955,
p 15
New Brighton a
regional history
1852-1970, p 121
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Goldsmith
Place
Oliver
Goldsmith
Street and
Goldsmith
Street.
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after
Oliver Goldsmith
(1728-1774).
Waltham
Goldsmith was the author of
The Vicar Of Wakefield.
One of the “poets and
writers” streets of Sydenham,
Addington and Waltham
named by a committee of the
Sydenham Borough Council
on 19 January 1880.
First appears in street
directories as Oliver
Goldsmith Street in 1887.
Becomes Goldsmith Street in
1892 and Goldsmith Place in
1983 when the Brougham
Street Expressway was put
through.
Golf Links
Road
Shirley Golf
Links Road
Named because it Shirley
is the road leading
to the Shirley Golf
Club.
Shirley Golf Links Road is
first mentioned in The Press
in 1905.
Golf Links Road first appears
in street directories in 1916.
[In street directories of the
1920s it is sometimes listed
with the alternate name of
Shirley Links Road.]
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See
Source
Report of the street
naming committee,
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, p 217,
held at Christchurch
City Council
archives.
“Borough Council”,
Star, 20 January
1880, p 3
“Advertisements”,
Star, 24 June 1905, p
6
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Goodall Place
Named after
Maurice John
Goodall (19282010).
Redwood
Goodall was bishop of
Christchurch 1984-1990.
Creese Place,
Denniston Crescent,
Jenkins Avenue,
Lowry Avenue,
Monteath Place,
Murchison Avenue,
Pyatt Place,
Solomon Avenue,
Strack Place and
Wakelin Place.
“Not happy on staff “Ex-bishop dies”,
names”, The Papanui The Press, 28
Herald, 13 March
October 2010, p A3
1973, p 7
One of the streets in the area
formed on land belonging to
Christ’s College and given
names of members of the
school staff or those
associated with the school.
First appears in street
directories in 1991.
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Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Goodman
Street
Clonmel
Street.
Origin of name
Suburb
Formerly Albert
Burwood
Street. Named
after Prince Albert
of Saxe-Coburg
and Gotha (18191861), the
husband of Queen
Victoria.
Re-named
Clonmel Street.
Named after
Clonmel, a town
in Tipperary,
Ireland.
Re-named
Goodman Street.
Named after
Leonard Oswald
Goodman (19121956).
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Additional information
See
Source
Formerly Albert Street. One
of three streets named after
members of Queen Victoria's
family.
Alice Street and
Liggins Street. Also
Irene Street and
Reaby Street.
Burwood All Saints’ "Street names
Church 1877-1977, p changed", The
42
Press, 25 June
1948, p 6
Waimairi County
Re-named Clonmel Street by
the Waimairi County Council
on 8 February 1933.
Re-named Goodman Street in
June 1948 when 24 streets in
the Waimairi County were renamed.
Goodman was a market
gardener who subdivided a
property in this area. His
father, Albert Edward
Goodman (1875-1922), also a
market gardener, had
previously owned the land.
Goodman Street was
extended in 1967.
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Council, minute
book, 1931-1936, p
308 held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
"Streets renamed",
The Press, 9
February 1933, p 15
"Street names
changed", The Press,
25 June 1948, p 9
"Naval names for
streets", The Press,
28 April 1967, p 12
Further
information
“Loss of market
garden land”, The
Press, 3 September
1954, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Gordon
Avenue
Probably named
St Albans
after John Gordon
Bannerman.
Additional information
Bannerman was an estate
agent. In street directories of
1903 he is living at 34 St
Albans Street, on the corner
of that street and a right-ofway. In that same year he is
advertising sections for sale
in Gordon Avenue with the
plan to be seen at his office at
174 Lichfield Street. In 1904
the right-of-way is named
Gordon Avenue.
In 1911 Bannerman was
living at Dudley Creek,
Shirley. He and his wife,
Caroline (1872?-1958), then
moved to Bondi in New
South Wales, Australia.
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Source
Further
information
"The skinning of
"Properties for sale
or to let", Star, 9 July Skinner", NZ
1903, p 1
Truth, 3 September
1910, p 5
“The skinning of
Skinner”, NZ
Truth, 8 October
1910, p 5
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Gore Street
Named after Gore
in Southland.
Halswell
Named by the developer,
Oaklands
Karl Scott (1910-1997). He
was the son of William and
Annie Isabel Scott. His father
emigrated to New Zealand in
the early 1900s and was
borough electrical engineer
for some years at Gore. Karl
Scott was born there.
Source
Information supplied Turf tufts and toeweights
in 2008 by Bede
Cosgriff (d. 2011) in
an interview with
Margaret Harper.
A short history of
Halswell, p 99
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
Gosforth
Grove
Named after
Westmorland
Gosforth, a village
and civil parish in
the Lake District,
in the Borough of
Copeland in
Cumbria, England.
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Named to continue the theme Westmorland
in the subdivision of naming
streets after places in historic
Westmorland in England,
since 1974 part of Cumbria.
Named in 2013.
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Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 17
September 2013
Minutes of the
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 17
September 2013
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Gosling
Crescent
Named after
William Gosling
(1820-1900).
Halswell
William and Lucy Gosling
Airedale Place. Also Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
and their children, Charles,
Longhurst.
agenda 3 April 2012
Mary, William and Elizabeth,
arrived in Canterbury on the
Randolph in 1850 as assisted
passengers. Gosling was an
agricultural blacksmith.
The streets in the Longhurst
subdivision are named after
local identities and
homesteads in the locality.
Named in 2012.
Gosport
Street
Named after
Aranui
Gosport, a
municipal borough
of Hampshire,
west of
Portsmouth.
In an area where all the
streets are named after places
in the county of Hampshire.
There is a Christchurch city
and a River Avon in
Hampshire, England.
Named in 1955.
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“New streets in
Christchurch”, The
Press, 28 June 1955,
p6
Further
information
Passenger list for
the Randolph
"Fatal accident at
Timaru", The
Press, 3 October
1900, p 5
Longhurst
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Gosset Street
Named after
Archdeacon
Charles Hilgrove
Gosset (18511923).
St Albans
Gosset was the vicar of
Woolston 1891-1902, and
from July 1902, vicar of St.
Mary’s Anglican Church,
Merivale.
Carrington Street
and Jacobs Street.
St Albans: from
swamp to suburbs:
an informal history,
p 20
The Blain
Biographical
Directory of
Anglican Clergy in
the Pacific
One of three streets named in
1923 and formed on land that
had been originally owned by
the Anglican diocese. Sales
of land were made for
“increased revenue for
Diocesan purposes”.
First appears in street
directories in 1924.
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The Canterbury
church property :
articles, p 35
"Advertisements",
The Press, 5 May
1923, p 20
"Story of 700 acres
of church property",
The Press, 25
February 1947, p 6
G. R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G299
“Obituary”, The
Press, 2 April 1923,
p8
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Gothic Place
Suburb
Additional information
Ilam
Henry Alfred Leslie "Harry" Hanover Place,
Vale (1889-1988), a
Tudor Avenue and
Christchurch heating
Tuirau Place.
engineering pioneer,
purchased 11 acres of land
there in 1910 and later laid
out and developed 4 acres of
gardens at 203 Ilam Road.
The property extended from
Ilam Road to Waimairi Road.
The street was formed on a
subdivision of his land.
First appears in street
directories in 1972.
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Source
Further
information
Information supplied
in 2009 by John
Vale, Harry Vale's
nephew, in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
“Old property
sold”, The Press,
21 February 1976,
p 18
"Obituary", The
Press, 6 June 1988,
p3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Gould
Crescent
Named after
George Gould
(1823-1889).
Woolston
Gould was an agent for
Alport Place and
owners and occupiers of
Palinurus Road.
sheep stations, an exporter of
wheat and wool from
Canterbury, and a director of
the New Zealand Shipping
Company. He was a
shareholder in the
Christchurch Conveyance
Company which ran the
lighters Fanny and Fancy
between Lyttelton and the
Heathcote River in 18521853.
Source
Further
information
“What’s in a
name?”, Shoreline:
the community news
magazine, April
1995, pp 18-20
George Gould
"In Memoriam",
Star, 28 March
1889, p 2
“Street-name
changes proposed
in Woolston”, The
Press, 4 October
1985, p 5
One of three streets in close
proximity named in 1986 to
give a maritime theme to the
area. Formed because of the
Woolston Cut flood relief
development.
Goulding
Avenue
Named after
David Stewart
Goulding (19192012).
Hornby
Goulding was a barber of
Hornby 1943-1992. The
street where his shop was
situated was named in his
honour.
Developed in 1965 as part of
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G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G306
“Proposal for new
road at Hornby”, The
Press, 3 August
1965, p 16
"Hornby rich in
history",
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
the master traffic plan for the
metropolitan area. The
newspaper report in 1965
says "the authority's plan
provides for a new road off
Shands Road opposite Amyes
Road, crossing private
property to intersect the Main
South Road and continue
along the west boundary of
the Presbyterian Church
property, turning along the
north boundary of the IGA
land and ending at Carmen
Road south of the Working
Men's Club".
From Shands Road to the
Main South Road named
Goulding Avenue. From the
Main South Road to Carmen
Road named Chalmers Street.
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Source
Christchurch Mail, 1
November 2006, p 8
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Governors
Bay Road
Governor’s
Bay Road
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after Sir
George Grey
(1812-1898).
Cass Bay
Grey was governor of New
Zealand 1845-1853 and
1861-1868.
See
Source
Further
information
View the biography
“Advertisements”,
The Lyttelton Times, of George Grey in
19 January 1859, p 6 the Dictionary of
New Zealand
Biography.
Governor’s Bay Road is first
mentioned in The Lyttelton
Times in 1859 when land for
sale there is advertised.
Appears in street directories
in 1892, the first year
Lyttelton streets are listed.
Gowerton
Place
Part of Vogel
Street.
Named after
Gowerton in
Wales.
Richmond
Gowerton was the birthplace
of George Manning (18871976), the mayor of
Christchurch 1958-1968.
Every year at Gowerton
School a major prizegiving
award is given in Sir
George's memory as he
attended the school.
Named in 1959.
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Vogel Street
“Streets named and
changed”, The Press,
1 September 1959, p
16
“Sir George - a
man of the people",
The Press, 30
December 1976, p
2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Grace Close
Suburb
Additional information
Halswell
Named to continue the street Aidanfield
naming theme of earlier
stages of the subdivision, that
of using the names of Sisters
of the Order of the Good
Shepherd.
Named on 3 March 2004.
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Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 3 March
2004
Mount Magdala :
80 years of
care…with a short
history of the
institution
Pitch your tents on
distant shores: a
history of the
Sisters of Good
Shepherd in
Australia,
Aotearoa/New
Zealand and Tahiti
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Gracefield
Avenue
Hyndman’s
Lane and
Gracefield
Avenue.
Origin of name
Suburb
Formerly
Central city
Hyndman’s Lane.
Named after Peter
Hyndman (18431914).
Re-named
Gracefield Street
which was
combined with
Grace Avenue,
named after owner
Francis James
Grace, to become
Gracefield
Avenue.
Additional information
Hyndman, a builder, lived at
857 Colombo Street. His
property backed on to where
the lane was formed.
Hyndman's Lane first appears
in 1894 street directories
running off 108 Salisbury
Street.
By 1909 it leads to Grace
Avenue although Grace
Avenue is not listed as a
street address. Land in Grace
Avenue is advertised for sale
in the Star in 1907.
By 1912 Hyndman's Lane has
been re-named Gracefield
Street. Grace Avenue ran off
Durham Street and Gracefield
Street off Salisbury Street.
The two were combined to
become Gracefield Avenue in
1930.
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Source
Further
information
"Advertisements",
Star, 6 August 1907,
p2
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: H943
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 2 August
1907, p 12
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 12
January 1907, p 16
"General news", The
Press, 10 September
1921, p 8
"City Council", The
Press, 1 September
1930, p 16
"Deaths", Sun, 26
September 1914, p
1
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Grafton
Street
William
Street
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Formerly William
Street. Named
after William
Barbour Wilson
(1819-1897).
Waltham
Wilson was a nurseryman,
businessman and local
politician.
Re-named Grafton
Street.
See
Barbour Street,
Charles Street,
Grenville Street,
Henry Street,
In a subdivision of Rural
Laurence Street,
Section 48, land owned by
William Wilson (1819-1897). Short Street,
William Street appears on an Williams Street and
Wilsons Road.
1874/75 Deposit Plan.
First appears in the Star in an
advertisement in 1880. It
does not appear in street
directories but appears on an
1890 map.
Re-named Grafton Street in
1888.
Source
Further
information
Plan of suburban
property (Rural
Section 48) situated
on the Ferry Road
near the East Town
Belt belonging to
William Wilson
Esq., Deposit Plan
27 1874/75. Map
held by Bob
Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased
to April 30 1863, p
2
[The land, 200 acres
in Ferry Road, had
originally been
purchased by G.
Draper and his sonin law, James
Edward FitzGerald
(1818?-1896).]
“Rural sections
chosen”, Lyttelton
Times, 15 March
1851, p 7
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View the biography
of William Barbour
Wilson in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: W620
“William Wilson –
landowner and
early nurseryman”,
The Press, 20 May
1978, p 13
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Grahams
Road
Named after
Douglas Graham
(1818-1872).
Burnside,
Ilam,
Avonhead,
Bishopdale
Graham arrived in
Canterbury in 1852 and was
the manager of John Deans’
cattle from 1854 until his
death.
Burnside
Fendall’s legacy: a
history of Fendalton
and north-west
Christchurch, p 88
Grahams Road was cut
through his holding of 141
acres which he leased to
William Boag. His home was
near the corner of Grahams
Road where Flay Park is now
located. The Star in 1892
refers to a sale of land at
Graham's Estate and
describes it as the largest and
most important sale of
suburban properties held in
Canterbury for many years.
First appears in street
directories in 1912, running
from Greers Road to
Wairarapa Road (later
Wairakei Road). Two
residents are listed – both
farmers.
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Further
information
Beyond the city:
the land and its
people, Riccarton,
Waimairi, Paparua,
“Latest locals”, Star, p 14
9 January 1892, p 3 G R Macdonald
dictionary of
"Land Sales", Star,
26 March 1892, p 3 Canterbury
biographies: G319a
"The late Mr
Douglas Graham",
Star, 13 March
1872, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Grampian
Street
Fosters Road
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after the
Grampians, a
range of
mountains
stretching across
the highlands of
Scotland.
Casebrook
Fosters Road first appears in
street directories in 1936.
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February 2016
Re-named Grampian Street in
June 1948 when 24 streets in
the Waimairi County were renamed.
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Source
Further
information
"Street names
"Street names
changed", The Press, changed", The
25 June 1948, p 9
Press, 25 June
1948, p 6
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Grange Street
Named after The
Grange, the home
of Dr James
William Earle
(1805-1878).
Hillsborough
Earle emigrated on the
Earl Street and
Randolph in 1850. He bought Kennedy Place.
Rural Section 44, 50 acres,
“Christchurch District, near
Hills Road” (later Port Hills
Road). He practised medicine
in Lyttelton, later moving to
Opawa where he built The
Grange.
Edward Steane Harley
(1840?-1901), an accountant
and a well-known cricketer,
owned The Grange later.
First appears in street
directories in 1901.
The northern section of
Kennedy Crescent was
incorporated into Grange
Street in 1963; the southern
section remained as Kennedy
Crescent.
[Jarden Place was originally
suggested as a name for the
northern section.]
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Source
Further
information
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 2
Passenger list for
the Randolph
“Rural Sections
chosen”, The
Lytelton Times, 15
March 1851, p 7
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 169
Information on date
of naming in a letter
sent to the City
Librarian from the
Town Clerk dated 29
April 1963.
Along the hills: a
history of the
Heathcote Road
Board and the
Heathcote County
Council 18641989, p 14
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: E13
“Obituary”, Star,
22 June 1894, p 1
(Mrs Earle’s
obituary)
“Obituary”, The
Press, 11 June
1901, p 2
“Obituary”, Star,
10 June 1901, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Grangewood
Lane
Suburb
Additional information
See
Burnside
Formed on the driveway once Annell Place,
leading to the homestead
Parkham Drive and
owned by Mabel Winifred
Witbrock Place.
Witbrock (1893-1991). This
house was moved to Old Tai
Tapu Road.
Developed about 1990.
Grantley
Street
Named after the
middle name of
William Henry
Grantley Norton
(1858-1912).
New Brighton, Norton was a member of the Tonks Road and
North New
auctioneering firm of Tonks Shaw Avenue.
Brighton
Norton which split up land in
North New Brighton in
1890s.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1911.
First appears in street
directories in 1931.
Granton Lane
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Spreydon
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
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Source
Further
information
Information supplied
in 2010 by Ngaire
Anne Kelly,
granddaughter of
Annie Witbrock, in
an interview with
Margaret Harper.
"Advertisements",
The Press, 27 May
1911, p 15
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: N155
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Grants Road
Named after
Donald Grant
(1819-1870).
Papanui
Originally an accommodation Restell Street
road ie. a route for stock.
Grant was a carpenter of
Lanarkshire. He and his wife
and their six children arrived
in Canterbury on the Royal
Stuart in October 1861. He
had settled in Papanui by
1865, buying part of Rural
Section 3, Papanui Bush,
land originally bought by
Ann Bowen, and also part of
Rural Section 203, Main
North Road, from John Pain
Restell (1825-1885).
Grant's Road is first
mentioned in The Press in
1872.
Grants Road first appears in
street directories in 1900.
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Source
Further
information
Christine Grant,
Papanui Heritage
Group
“Inquest”, Thames
Star, 2 November
1885, p 2
"Rural Sections
chosen", Lyttelton
Times, 1 March
1851, p 6
"Lyttelton", The
Press, 12 October
1861, p 4
"Advertisements",
Lyttelton Times, 11
April 1865, p 2
"Road Boards", The
Press, 1 January
1872, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Grassington
Lane
Named after
Halswell
Grassington
Station, situated
behind Rotherham
on the banks of
the Waiau River.
Grassmere
Street
Suburb
Green’s Road Formerly Green’s Papanui
Road. Named after
the Rev. George
Rowney Green
(1794-1860).
Re-named
Grassmere Street.
Named after Lake
Grasmere in the
Lakes District,
Cumbria, England.
[Grasmere has
been mis-spelt in
the naming of the
street.]
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February 2016
Additional information
See
Source
The streets in the Broken Run Broken Run,
subdivision are all named
Cromdale Place,
after high country stations.
Glen Arrife Place,
Highpeak Place,
Named by the developers,
Longspur Avenue
Brian Gillman Ltd.
and Ryton Way.
Named in 2005.
Also Broken Run.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 12 July 2005
The Rev. Green, a fellow of
Eton and Rector of Everdon
in Northamptonshire, selected
Rural Section 308, just north
of Papanui (North Road)
“next to Dunnage”. He was
an absentee landowner. His
brother, Henry Green of
Papanui, advertises for work
as a tutor in The Lyttelton
Times in 1852.
Province of
Canterbury, New
Zealand : list of
sections purchased to
April 30 1863, p 8
Green’s Road appears in
street directories in 1894.
Re-named Grassmere Street
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
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Further
information
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G385
“Street names”,
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 6
The Lyttelton Times, October 1909, p 6
17 January 1852, p 1 “New names for
“Street naming”, The streets”, The Press,
Press, 3 November
2 June 1948, p 3
1909, p 3
“New street
"Street names
names”, The Press,
changed: City
24 July 1948, p 2
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Graycliffe
Street
Named after Gray
Cliffe, a property
at the foot of the
Port Hills, near
Tai Tapu.
Halswell
Named Gray Cliffe by Henry
Francis Gray (1838-1905)
when he bought the property
in 1875. He sold it to Sir
Robert Heaton Rhodes
(1861-1956) in 1893. Rhodes
commissioned Frederick
Strouts to design a grand
country house, Otahuna, on
the site. This was completed
in 1895.
[The name of the
property has been
mis-spelt in the
naming of the
street.]
The streets in the Longhurst
subdivision are named after
local identities and
homesteads in the locality.
Named in 2012.
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Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 3 April 2012
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G364
View the biography
of Robert Heaton
Rhodes in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Longhurst
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Grayshott
Avenue
Named after
Sittingbourne,
Kent.
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Named because the street is
in the Highsted subdivision.
Highsted is a town in
Hampshire that borders Kent.
Broadstairs Avenue,
Farrelly Place,
Faversham Lane,
Glenturret Drive
and Tullet Park
Drive.
Shirley/Papanui
Highsted
Community Board
Residential
agenda 17 December
2014
In stages 1-4 of the Highsted
subdivision. The names were
suggested by the developer.
Named in 2014.
Also Highsted
Road.
NB Highsted Road, and
consequently Highsted
Residential, are named after
John Kirby Highsted (18171871), not the town in Kent,
England.
Great Gables
Lane
Named after
Mount Great
Gables, a
mountain in the
Lakes District in
England.
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Huntsbury
Formed post-1997.
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Broad Oaks
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Greenaway
Street
Named after John
Greenaway
(1831?-1880).
Halswell
Greenaway was a nurseryman Longhurst
and seedsman.
In a later stage of the
Longhurst subdivision where
the streets are named after
members of the Canterbury
Militia of 1860.
Named in 2012.
See
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 16 October
2012
Christchurch
Militia List 1860
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton
Times, 9 June
1860, p 6
“Fatal accident on
the tramway”, Star,
1 December 1880,
p3
“Christchurch”,
New Zealand
Tablet, 10
December 1880, p
14
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G398
Longhurst
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Page 123 of 143
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Greenbank
Street
Named by the
Parklands
development
company to keep
with the existing
theme of water
and water features.
The name was
also considered
appropriate for the
locality.
In the Waitikiri Stage 3 (Lake Waitikiri
stage) subdivision.
Named after the
Greenhaven
Estate.
This was the property there of Snelling Place
Lydia Elizabeth Partridge
(1875-1962), daughter of
Thomas Snelling (1827?1888) and Eliza Scott
Snelling (1836?-1918).
Greenhaven
Drive
Suburb
Burwood
Additional information
Named in 2011.
[It was to have been called
Snelling Avenue but the
deposit plan for the
subdivision had been signed,
sealed and delivered with the
wrong street name on it.]
First appears in street
directories in 1996.
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February 2016
See
Page 124 of 143
Source
Further
information
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 15 August
2011
"Waitikiri
subdivision", The
Press, 7 November
2000, p 18
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 23 August
2011
Waitikiri
“Name filed in
G R Macdonald
error”, The Press, 19 dictionary of
February 1965, p 14 Canterbury
biographies: S588
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Greenwich
Street
Named after
Halswell
Greenwich Park in
London, a World
Heritage site and
the oldest of the
Royal Parks.
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
In the Knights Stream Park
subdivision where streets
have been named with a
common theme of World
Heritage sites and national
and major parks around the
world.
Knights Stream
Park
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 3 April 2012
Knights Stream
Park
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
minutes 3 April 2012
Named in 2012.
Greenmeadow
Gardens
Belfast
Planned to be named
Lowestaff Place in 1997 but
the developer wished for a
name change before it was
shown on a Land Transfer
Plan.
Re-named Greenmeadow
Gardens in 1999.
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Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 31 March
1999
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Greenock
Street
Named after
Greenock, a town
in western
Scotland.
Redwood
Named by the wife of the
developer, a Mr Taylor, after
a visit to Greenock in
Scotland. The Taylors were
associated with the Rose
Society.
See
[Another suggestion was
Clevedon Street but this was
rejected as it was considered
too similar to Cleveland
Street.]
Source
Further
information
“New name
proposed”, The
Papanui Herald, 22
September 1970, p 1
Information supplied
in 2008 by Elsie
Grueber, former lady
editor of The
Papanui Herald, in
an interview with
Margaret Harper.
Named in 1970.
Greers Road
From
Harewood
Road to
Sawyers
Arms Road
was formerly
named
Bishop’s
Road.
Named after
David Greer
(1842-1918).
Bishop’s Road
was named after
the Bishop family:
James Bishop
(1826-1910) and
his wife, Rebecca
(1825?-1913).
Their children
were: James (b.
1848), Robert
(1851-1940),
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Burnside,
Ilam,
Bishopdale,
Bryndwr
The Greer family farmed an Bishopdale
area of about 99 acres from
what became Wairakei Road
through to Condell Avenue
and south to Jennifer Street.
David Greer built his first
homestead at what later
became 302 Greers Road in
1878. They named their
property Tyrone Farm after
Tyrone County, their home in
Northern Ireland. This house
burnt down after two years
and another built.
Page 126 of 143
“Marriages”, Star, 30 G R Macdonald
April 1896, p 2
dictionary of
Canterbury
“News of the day”,
biographies: B455,
The Press, 4
B456, B457, G419
September 1908, p 5
"Advertisements",
Bishop’s of
The Press, 28
Bishopdale
February 1918, p 9
Reminiscences of
Early fruitgrowing
pioneer farming at
Papanui and Pleasant in Canterbury, New
Zealand, pp 16-21
Point 1855-1916?
“Diamond
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
William (18541884), Frederick
Alfred (18511911) and
Rebecca Sarah
(1860?-1951).
Suburb
Additional information
Greers Road is first
mentioned in The Press in
1908.
First appears in street
directories in 1912 running
from Harewood Road to
Wairarapa Road (later
Wairakei Road). Extended to
Burnside Road (later
Memorial Avenue) in 1928.
Bishop’s Road is mentioned
in the Star in 1907 in a report
of James and Rebecca
Bishop’s diamond wedding
celebrations. They were then
living in Bishop’s Road
which was incorporated into
Greers Road by the Waimairi
County Council in June 1948.
There had been confusion
with Bishop Street in St
Albans. Greers Road was
then continued through to
Sawyers Arms Road.
G R Macdonald says the renaming was "to the justifiable
indignation of the whole
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Page 127 of 143
See
Source
Wedding”, Star, 23
November 1907, p 5
"Papanui news", The
Press, 20 August
1932, p 11
“Street names
changed”, The Press,
25 June 1948, p 9
Waimairi County
Council minute
book, January 1947February 1949, p
540 held at
Christchurch City
Council archives.
"Bishopdale", The
Press, 27 July 1966,
p 14
“Old homestead
auctioned” The
Papanui Herald, 27
March 1984, p 1
“Old landmark
revels in former
glory”, The Press, 13
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Gregan
Crescent
Origin of name
Named after the
Gregan family.
Suburb
Burnside
Additional information
Source
Bishop family". Descendants
of "the late James, William
and Robert Bishop" had
protested against the change
as early as 1932. Miss R.
Bishop wrote to the Waimairi
County Council also
objecting to the change. To
preserve the family
association it was decided to
call the suburb, Bishopdale.
July 1994, p 47
Bernard Daniel Gregan
(1910-1976) farmed at 341
Wairakei Road. The farm
extended from Grahams Road
to the shingle pits at Lake
Bryndwr. The land was
bought by the Government
for state housing in 1956.
Information supplied
in 2007 by Bernice
Gregan in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
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February 2016
See
Page 128 of 143
Further
information
“More land for
houses”, The Press,
7 February 1956, p
14
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Gregory
Avenue
Origin of name
Gregory Road Named after
William Henry
Gregory (1877?1959).
Suburb
Additional information
Islington
Gregory was an electrical
engineer with the electricity
department.
Formed near the Islington
substation.
Gregory Road first appears in
street directories in 1977.
Becomes Gregory Avenue in
1983.
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See
Source
Information supplied
in 2006 by Bob
Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Grenville
Street
Origin of name
Suburb
John Street
Formerly John
Waltham
and Beresford Street. Named
Street
after William John
Wilson (1858?1895).
Re-named
Beresford Street
and later re-named
Grenville Street.
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
William John Wilson was the
eldest son of William
Barbour Wilson (1819-1897),
nurseryman, businessman
and local politician and his
wife, Elizabeth. He was a
gentleman of Sydenham. He
died in his 38th year at his
father’s house, the Grove.
Barbour Street,
Charles Street,
Grafton Street,
Henry Street,
Laurence Street,
Short Street and
Williams Street.
Plan of suburban
property (Rural
Section 48) situated
on the Ferry Road
near the East Town
Belt belonging to
William Wilson
Esq., Deposit Plan
27 1874/75. Map
held by Bob
Pritchard,
subdivisions officer,
Christchurch City
Council.
The descendants of
John and Mary
Gebbie, p 15
In a subdivision of Rural
Section 48, land owned by
William Wilson (1819-1897).
John Street appears on an
1874/75 Deposit Plan.
First appears in street
directories in 1892.
Re-named Beresford Street in
1909.
Re-named Grenville Street on
1 September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
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[The land, 200 acres
in Ferry Road, had
originally been
purchased by G.
Draper and his sonin law, James
Edward FitzGerald
(1818?-1896).]
“Rural sections
chosen”, Lyttelton
Times, 15 March
1851, p 7
View the biography
of William Barbour
Wilson in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: W620
“Deaths”, Star, 6
September 1895, p
2
“Deaths”, The
Press, 30
September 1895, p
3
“Street names”,
The Press, 6
October 1909, p 6
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
“Street naming”, The “New street
Press, 3 November
names”, The Press,
1909, p 3
24 July 1948, p 2
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
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“William Wilson –
landowner and
early nurseryman”,
The Press, 20 May
1978, p 13
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Gresford
Street
Named after the
Gresford Estate.
Edgeware
Samuel Bealey (1821-1909)
was Canterbury’s third
superintendent 1863-1866.
He and his brother John
owned the Gresford Estate
and named their home
Gresford. This is first
mentioned in the Star in
1869.
Bealey Avenue and
Champion Street.
“Advertisements”,
Star, 20 August
1869, p 1
Samuel Bealey
The land was subdivided and
Gresford Street formed in
1901.
First appears in street
directories in 1903.
“Land sale: the
Gresford Estate”,
Star, 17 January
1901, p 3
“Advertisements”,
Star, 9 August 1902,
p6
St Albans : from
swamp to suburbs :
an informal history,
pp 15 & 154
Bealey Avenue,
Christchurch’s North
Town Belt, p 8
Gresham
Terrace
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New Brighton
First appears in street
directories in 1964.
Page 132 of 143
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: B252
“Obituary”, Star,
26 May 1909, p 2
“Obituary, Mr
Samuel Bealey”,
The Press, 26 May
1909, p 7
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Greta Place
Named after the
Greta stream
which is some
miles north of
Motunau.
Hoon Hay
In a subdivision where the
streets are named after rivers
or properties in North
Canterbury.
Ferniehurst Street,
Kaiwara Street,
Molesworth Place,
Palmside Street and
Tekoa Place.
“New city street
names”, The Press,
30 June 1959, p 5
Hyde Park
"New release of
sections in Hyde
Park subdivision",
The Press, 20
October 1987, p 40
Named in 1959.
First appears in street
directories in 1966.
Greystoke
Lane
Named after
Avonhead
Greystoke Castle
in the village of
Greystoke in the
county of Cumbria
in Northern
England.
Named in 1987 by Philip
Carter, managing director of
the Carter Group which
developed the Hyde Park
subdivision. Many of the
streets there are named after
stately homes of England or
English placenames.
Greywacke
Road
Named after
Harewood
greywacke, a grey
earthy rock.
First appears in street
directories in 1976.
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The contracting company of
Ashby Brothers was based
there at the time. It has been
suggested that the road was
previously named Ashbys
Road but this does not appear
in street directories.
Page 133 of 143
“Country’s
influence”, The
Press, 11 November
1964, p 30
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Griffiths
Avenue
Ferriman
Avenue
Origin of name
Suburb
Formerly
Linwood
Ferriman Avenue.
Named after
William Zaccheus
Duckett Ferrriman
(1889?-1956).
Re-named
Griffiths Avenue.
Additional information
See
Source
Ferriman, an Ashburton
farmer, was well-known for
his work with returned
servicemen in midCanterbury.
Nicholas Drive and
Sandilands.
"General news", The “New names for
Press, 30 October
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
1934, p 10
In the cottage home
settlement at Sandilands.
Named by the executive of
the Christchurch Returned
Soldiers' Association in 1934
with the name being
approved by the Christchurch
City Council in 1935.
First appears in street
directories in 1947.
Re-named Griffiths Avenue
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
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"Advertisements",
The Press, 29
January 1935, p 11
"Street names
changed: City
council approves
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Further
information
“New street
names”, The Press,
24 July 1948, p 2
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Grigg Place
Named after John
Grigg (1828?1901).
Hillmorton
Grigg was a runholder at
Longbeach and Fellow of
Christ's College.
Bean Street,
Bidwell Place,
Charles Upham
Avenue, Harling
Avenue, Neave
Place, Warren
Crescent and WestWatson Avenue.
“West-Watson
View the biography
Park”, The Press, 14 of John Grigg in
September 1957, p 4 the Dictionary of
New Zealand
Biography.
One of the streets in the area
formed on land belonging to
Christ’s College.
First appears in street
directories in 1970.
Further
information
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G457
“Death of a pioneer
farmer”, Star, 5
November 1901, p
2
Grimseys
Road
Named after
Joseph Grimsey
(1842?-1920).
Redwood
Grimsey was a farmer "on the
Harewood Road at the Styx".
Grimsey's Road is first
mentioned in The Press in
1884.
First appears in street
directories in 1901.
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"Avon", The Press,
G R Macdonald
21 January 1884, p 3 dictionary of
Canterbury
"Obituary", The
Press, 31 July 1920, biographies: G461
p9
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Grosvenor
Street
Named after
Grosvenor Square
in London.
Redwood
One of a group of streets
named after London railway
stations. The Main North
Railway passes right by the
area.
Aldgate Street,
Camden Street,
Ealing Street,
Fenchurch Street,
Lambeth Crescent,
Paddington Street
and Uxbridge
Street.
“Naming of streets in
new subdivisions”,
The Press, 1
November 1958, p
10
Named in 1955.
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Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Grove Road
Park Road
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
Named after The
Grove, the cob
house built by
William Barbour
Wilson (18191897) in
Brougham Street.
Addington
Park Road first appears in
street directories in 1878.
Re-named Grove Road on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Wilson was a nurseryman,
businessman and local
politician, being the first
mayor of Christchurch. He
built his house, the Grove, on
13 acres of land in Brougham
Street in 1858. The house
long remained a landmark in
the district.
The property was later
bought by the Sisters of
Nazareth who opened
Nazareth House in 1909 on
the site.
Groynes
Drive
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Northwood
First appears in street
directories in 1995.
Page 137 of 143
See
Source
Further
information
View the biography
of William Barbour
Wilson in the
Sydenham : the
Dictionary of New
model borough of
old Christchurch : an Zealand Biography.
informal history, p
The descendants of
17
John and Mary
Gebbie, p 15
“Funeral”, Star, 10
The evolution of a
city, pp 19-20
November 1897, p 2
"Nazareth House,
Christchurch", New
Zealand Tablet, 21
January 1909, p 91
“Nazareth House”,
The Press, 19
November 1910, p
12
"Farm house to
grove", Early
Christchurch and
Canterbury :
newspaper
clippings, ca. 19231950, Vol 1, p 32
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
"Street names
“New street
changed: City
names”, The Press,
council approves
24 July 1948, p 2
final list", The Press,
24 August 1948, p 3
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Guernsey
Street
Named after
Guernsey in the
Channel Islands.
Aranui
Ronald Cyril de la Mare
(1925-1975) was the
managing director of the
Bower Egg Farm Ltd, 467
Bower Avenue. He
developed this subdivision
off Rowses Road and Breezes
Road and named the streets.
All have associations with the
Channel Islands as he had
emigrated from Guernsey.
Carteret Place,
Casquet Lane,
Channel Place,
Cornet Lane,
Pateley Lane and St
Heliers Crescent.
Also Rue De La
Mare.
Information supplied
in 2007 by Tim
Baker in an
interview with
Margaret Harper.
“New Aranui
subdivision”, The
Press, 11 July
1972, p 14
First appears in street
directories in 1978.
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Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Guild Street
Named after a
Richmond
position in the
Anglican church.
Guilds were
originally
associations of
craftsmen in
particular trades.
The term was
borrowed by the
Anglican Church.
A guild tends to
be a group of lay
persons (often
women) within a
parish which meet
together for social
purposes and to
maintain the
building and its
finances.
Guildford
Street
Named after
Guildford, a town
in Surrey,
England.
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Suburb
Burnside
Additional information
In an area where the Anglican
church owned land.
First mentioned in The Press
in 1910 when land is
advertised for sale there. It
was then being formed.
First appears in street
directories in 1914.
First appears in street
directories in 1960.
Page 139 of 143
See
Source
The Canterbury
church property :
articles
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 7 May
1910, p 14
“Story of 700 acres
of church property",
The Press, 25
February 1947, p 6
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Suburb
Guinness
Crescent
Named after
Ilam
Francis Hart
Vicesimus 'Frank"
Guinness
(1819/1820-1891).
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Guinness was a land sales
auctioneer and commission
agent. He traded under the
company name of Guinness
& Le Cren Ltd. This
combined with two other
businesses in 1919 to become
Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd.,
stock and stations agents.
Bullock Place,
Burrows Place,
Parkinson Place,
Powell Crescent,
Pulford Place and
Seagrave Place.
Also Raxworthy
Street.
Information supplied
in 2008 by Maurice
Carter (d. 2011) in
an interview with
Margaret Harper.
Pyne, Gould,
Guinness Ltd: the
jubilee history
1919-1969
One of the streets developed
in the 1960s by Maurice R.
Carter Ltd., a company which
built 138 houses in a block of
land off Grahams Road
bought from the PGG
superannuation fund.
First appears in street
directories in 1968. [This was
developed later than other
streets in the PGG
subdivision.]
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View the biography
of Francis Hart
Vicesimus
Guinness in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Gunns
Crescent
Additional information
See
Source
Further
information
Named after the
Cashmere
Scottish clan from
which Sir John
Cracroft Wilson
(1808-1881)
descended.
Clan Gunn is a Scottish clan
associated with north-eastern
Scotland.
Cashmere
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 238
View the biography
of John Cracroft
Wilson in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
Burwood
Streets were given names
associated with King Arthur
and the Knights of the Round
Table in this part of the
Travis Country Estate.
Excalibur Place,
Mullion Lane, St
Keverne Close,
Mullion Lane and
Sedgemoor Close.
Also Glastonbury
Drive and Quantock
Place. Also Travis
Country Estate.
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 24 November
1997
Gunwelloe
Lane
Suburb
First appears in street
directories in 1968.
Named in 1997.
Guthries
Road
Named after
Robert Guthrie
(1846-1915).
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Belfast, Styx
Guthrie was foreman of the
Provision and Produce
Company and also a farmer
of Belfast.
A short history of
Belfast, 1949
Guthries Road is first
mentioned in The Press in
1896 when land is advertised
for sale there.
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 1 July
1896, p 8
Page 141 of 143
Settling near the
Styx River, p 137
“Mr R.Guthrie”,
The Press, 4
December 1915, p
14
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: G514a
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Origin of name
Guyon Street
Named after Lake
Guyon, a lake in
the South Island
high country.
Suburb
Additional information
The development company
chose a theme of Canterbury
lakes, rivers, lagoons and
other water bodies for the
street names in the
subdivision.
In stage 1 of the Prestons
Park subdivision on the south
side of Prestons Road,
opposite the Prestons
subdivision.
See
Source
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 21
September 2015
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
minutes 21
September 2015
Named in 2015.
Gwen Way
Redwood
Gwendoline Way was also
proposed but Gwen Way was
chosen as it is a small cul de
sac.
In the Redwood Springs
subdivision.
Named in 2003.
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Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
agenda 5 March
2003
Further
information
Christchurch Street Names: F to G
Current name Former
name
Gwynfa
Avenue
Hawthorn
Avenue or
HawthorneAv
enue
Origin of name
Suburb
Re-named Gwynfa Cashmere
Avenue. Named
after a loop on the
hills extension of
the tram on
Hackthorne Road.
This was named
because the name
Gwynfa was on a
gate immediately
opposite this stop.
There was some
argument about
the name of the
loop, and this was
regarded as rather
amusing as
Gwynfa is the
Welsh for place of
happiness.
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Additional information
Hawthorn Avenue or
Hawthorne Avenue first
appears in street directories in
1924.
It was a private street until
officially re-named Gwynfa
Avenue in 1933 by the Public
Utilities Committee of the
Heathcote County Council.
See
Source
"News of the day",
The Press, 10
February 1912, p 8
"Tramway Board",
The Press, 27
February 1912, p 3
“Street names” The
Press, 15 October
1932, p 14
"Street names", The
Press, 31 January
1933, p 3
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Further
information