Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries
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<strong>Christchurch</strong> Street Names: T to V<br />
Current<br />
name<br />
Tintern<br />
Avenue<br />
Former<br />
name<br />
Tiora Place Henley<br />
Place<br />
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further<br />
information<br />
Named after<br />
Tintern Abbey.<br />
Avonhead Named in 1956 when<br />
Waimairi County councillors<br />
were keen to use a surplus<br />
nameplate. Tintern Abbey is<br />
situated four miles north of<br />
Chepstow in<br />
Monmouthshire, South<br />
Wales. It had been intended<br />
that Wai-iti Terrace be renamed<br />
Tintern Avenue<br />
because of its proximity to<br />
Chepstowe Street (later<br />
Chepstow Avenue).<br />
[The newspaper source<br />
appears to suggest that the<br />
<strong>street</strong> was formerly Chereton<br />
Avenue but this does not<br />
appear in <strong>street</strong> directories.]<br />
Upper<br />
Riccarton<br />
Henley Place first appears in<br />
<strong>street</strong> directories in 1950.<br />
Re-named Tiora Place in<br />
1951.<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong> Page 42 of 95<br />
8 August 2013<br />
“Waimairi Street<br />
renaming”, The<br />
Press, 21 September<br />
1956, p 7
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