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Christchurch Street Names B
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Benjamin
Mountfort
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Christchurch City Libraries
Updated July 2013
Named after
Benjamin Woolfield
Mountfort (1825-
1898).
Named because it is
a family name
belonging to Mr and
Mrs Macleod.
Middleton Sunnyside Hospital’s
main buildings were
constructed in the
1870s from designs
by Mountfort.
In the first stage of
Linden Grove, a Ngai
Tahu subdivision
developed on the site
of the former
Sunnyside Hospital.
Name approved in
2007.
Harewood The Macleods are
shareholders in
Nunweek Estates,
developers of this
subdivision. Their
ancestral home is in
the Isle of Skye.
Developed off 547
Harewood Road.
Named in 1999.
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information
Albion Lane,
John Campbell
Crescent,
Levinge Lane,
Linden Grove
Avenue, Pavilion
Crescent, Spruce
Lane, The Oval,
The Wickets,
The Willows,
Thomas Cane
Lane and Yew
Tree Lane.
Also Linden
Grove.
Berisdale Place,
Nunweek
Boulevard, St
Clair Close,
Skyedale Drive,
Talisker Place.
Spreydon/Heathcote
Community Board
agenda 17 July 2007
Fendalton/Waimairi
Community Board
agenda 4 May 1999
Benjamin Mountfort
View the biography
of Benjamin
Woolfield Mountfort
in the Dictionary of
New Zealand
Biography.
View the biography
of William Barbour
Wilson in the
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography.