Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names B
Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional
information
Bordesley
Street
Parish Street
and
Cambridge
Street
Christchurch City Libraries
Updated July 2013
Formerly Parish
Street, an early
informal name.
Named after William
Parish (1815-1878).
Re-named
Cambridge Street
and later Bordesley
Street.
Phillipstown Parish worked on the
construction of Ferry
Road. He later
became a member of
the Avon Road
Board.
Sections for sale in
Parish Street, New
Cambridge, are
advertised in the Star
in 1878. Parish Street
appears only in street
directories of 1896
with a see ref. to
Cambridge Street.
Re-named
Cambridge Street in
1894.
Re-named Bordesley
Street in 1909.
Page 103 of 166
See Source Further
information
Parish Street “Advertisements”, Star,
17 June 1878, p 2
"Linwood Borough
Council", Star, 16
October 1894, p 4
“Street naming”, The
Press, 3 November
1909, p 3
Along the hills: a
history of the
Heathcote Road
Board and the
Heathcote County
Council 1864-1989,
p 33
G. R. Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: P67
The Cyclopedia of
New Zealand. Vol 3,
p 414
“Street names”, The
Press, 6 October
1909, p 6