Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries

Current
name
Seaward
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Seclusion
Lane
Seddon
Street
Christchurch Street Names: S
Former
name
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Named because
the street is near
Pegasus Bay.
Named because
the developers
wanted to
market the
subdivision as a
haven to come
home to after a
day at work.
Named after
Richard John
Seddon (1845-
1906).
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Brooklands Named in 2008. Shirley/Papanui
Community Board
Greenspace Traffic
Works Committee
agenda 18 August 2008
Parklands One of a number of streets in The
Limes subdivision whose names
caused controversy among
Burwood-Pegasus Community
Board members.
Developed by Brian Gillman Ltd.
Named in 2002.
Sydenham Seddon was the Prime Minister
of New Zealand 1893-1906.
First appears in street directories
in 1909.
Hideaway
Gate, Limes
Avenue,
Milkers Gate
and Oasis
Grove.
Burwood/Pegasus
Community Board
agenda 15 July 2002
"'Sexy' street names
leave Cr James cold",
Christchurch Eastern
Mail, 10 July 2002, p 7
"Street name
shakedown shapes up",
Christchurch Eastern
Mail, 24 July 2002, p 1
Beckenham: a suburb of
Christchurch, New
Zealand, p 16
View the biography
of Richard John
Seddon in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.
“Workers’
dwellings”, The
Press, 22 November
1911, p 7