Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Thurso
Place
Ticehurst
Road
Former
name
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Named after
Thurso, a town
on the north
coast of
Scotland.
Named after
Ticehurst in
Sussex.
New
Brighton
The developer may have had
some connection with
Thurso. It is five miles west
of the town of Castletown.
Thurso Place, Caithness
Street and Castletown Place
here are in close proximity.
First appears in street
directories in 1972.
Lyttelton The Rev. Benjamin Woolley
Dudley (1805-1892) served
as a curate in this parish
1851-1859.
First mentioned in The
Lyttelton Times in 1851
when land for sale there is
advertised.
Declared by the Lyttelton
Borough Council to be a
public street from 1 August
1898.
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Caithness
Street and
Castletown
Place.
Dudley
Road and
Flimwell
Lane.
Information supplied
in 2008 by Adrian
Kirso in an interview
with Margaret
Harper.
"Advertisements",
The Lyttelton Times,
21 June 1851, p 4
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 18 June
1898, p 10
The Blain
Biographical
Directory of
Anglican Clergy in
the Pacific
G R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: D466
“Obituary”, The
Press, 30 August
1892, p 6