Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names B
Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional
information
Buxtons Road Named after Captain
Thomas Buxton
(1821-1900).
Byron Street Second Street
and Hugh
Street.
Christchurch City Libraries
Updated July 2013
Formerly Second
Street. The streets
south of, and parallel
to, Moorhouse
Avenue were named
in numerical order.
The section of
Second Street east of
Colombo Road was
re-named Byron
Street. Named after
Lord George Gordon
Lyttelton Captain Buxton was
a whaler. He was the
first to open up trade
between Lyttelton
and the West Coast
with his ships the
Queen Wave and the
Dancing Wave.
Declared by the
Lyttelton Borough
Council to be a
public street from 1
August 1898.
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
Sydenham Second Street does
not appear in street
directories, only
maps. On a 1879 map
it is shown running
from Harper Street
(later Orbell Street)
to Gasworks Road
(later Waltham
Road).
Re-named Byron
Street. Byron was an
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See Source Further
information
Sandyford
Street. Also
Murray Aynsley
Hill.
“Advertisements”, The
Press, 18 June 1898, p
10
Plan of Christchurch
and suburbs, 1879
Sydenham : the model
borough of old
Christchurch : an
informal history, p 82
Report of the street
naming committee,
Sydenham Borough
Council minute book
1879-1880, pp 217 &
“Obituary”, Star, 28
February 1900, p 1
“Obituary” The
Press, 28 February
1900, p 3h
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: B1058
Centenary, 1857-
1957 : St John the
Evangelist, Woolston
“Obituary”, The
Press, 23 February
1917, p 3