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Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Cable Lane Named after Halswell Cable was a labourer at the Longhurst Riccarton/Wigram Christchurch Edward Cable. Heathcote Steam Wharf. Community Board Militia List 1860 agenda 16 October In a later stage of the "Advertisements", Longhurst subdivision where 2012 The Lyttelton the streets are named after Times, 6 June members of the Canterbury 1860, p 6 Militia of 1860-1861. Longhurst Named in 2012. Cable Street Named after Cable Sockburn In 1978 this business is listed Price Corporation in street directories as being Ltd. at 471 Blenheim Road. First appears in street directories in 1979. Cadiz Road Named after Mount Pleasant In a group of streets with Soleares The Port Hills of "Foremost Cadiz, a city and Spanish names. Named by the Avenue. Also Christchurch, p 95 developer and port in south- developer, Bernard Blogg, Toledo Place donor", The Press, Additional western Spain. one of the partners in Blogg and Valencia 22 October 2005, information Brothers Ltd. He hoped that Lane. p D19 supplied in 2008 by Spanish-style houses would Bede Cosgriff (d. be built there. 2011) in an First appears in street interview with directories in 1983. Margaret Harper. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 1 of 169 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Cadogan Street Named after Sydenham Cadogan was a British soldier “Sydenham William Cadogan, and parliamentarian. Borough Council”, Star, 19 October 1st Earl of First mentioned in the Star in 1886, p 4 Cadogan (1675- a report of a meeting of the 1726). Sydenham Borough Council in 1886. First appears in street directories in 1887. Caerphilly Named after Hillsborough Developed post-1997. Place Caerphilly, a town in the county borough of Caerphilly in South Wales. Caithness Named after New Brighton The developer of the street Castletown Information Street Caithness, a may have had some Place and supplied in 2008 by Highland council connection with Castletown. Thurso Place. Adrian Kirso in an area in Scotland. It is five miles away from the interview with town of Thurso. Margaret Harper. Thurso Place, Caithness Street and Castletown Place are in close proximity. First appears in street directories in 1981. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 2 of 169 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Calbourne Named after Avondale In a subdivision between the Binstead “Streets named”, "Big Wainoni Lane Calbourne on the Avon River, west of the Place, Chale Pegasus Post, 9 July subdivision", The Isle of Wight. Bower Bridge, and the Lane, Cowes 1975, p 8 Press, 20 June northern end of the Avondale Street, 1969, p 1 Golf Course, of a 50 acre Cowper Place, farm formerly belonging to Culver Place, Stewart Clendinning Hulverstone Hampton (1908-1993). Drive and Thorness All the streets are named after Street. places on the Isle of Wight. Developed from 1969 by Merrit-Beazley Homes Ltd. Named on 16 June 1975. Caldbeck Lane Named after Westmorland Named to continue the theme Westmorland The Port Hills of Caldbeck, a in the subdivision of naming Christchurch, p 248 village in North streets after places in historic Cumbria. Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. First appears in street directories in 1995. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 3 of 169 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Caldwell Lane Named after Huntsbury Mrs Johnstone was a pioneer Broad Oaks Spreydon/Heathcote Up the hill: Dorothy Susan of geriatric nursing at community board Cashmere Johnstone, née Coronation Hospital 1956- special meeting 2 Sanatorium and Caldwell, (1910- 1971. December 1993 Coronation Hospital, 1910 to 2004). Named in 1993. 1991. Caleb Place Northwood Developed by Belfast Shirley/Papanui Developments Ltd and Styx Community Board Developments Ltd. The agenda 29 March developers “chose names 2000 suitable for the length of the Report of the road rather than trying to Shirley/Papanui establish a common theme Community Board throughout the subdivision”. to the Council 19 Named in 2000. April 2000 Caledonian Caledonia Named after St Albans Originally an accommodation St Albans: from G R Macdonald Road Road Caledonia, the road ie. a route for stock. It swamp to suburbs: dictionary of romantic or poetic provided the only firm an informal history, Canterbury name for Scotland. ground for bullock wagons p 159 biographies: serving the area north of the Z Arch 387, When H316, L118 & city. the street was a M463 Formed on Rural Section 257, village Christchurch land on the “North Town Province of Militia List 1860 Belt” bought by Alexander Canterbury, New Plan of Lean (1824-1893). He sold Zealand : list of Christchurch and this land to Edward Corker sections purchased suburbs, 1879 Minchin (1821-1899) in © Christchurch City Libraries Page 4 of 169 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information 1853. The 1860 militia list to April 30 1863, p “Caledonian has Minchin living in 7 Road”, The Press, Springfield Road. 8 April 1972, p 12 “The belt and streets Named by an early settler, of Christchurch”, William Hawker (1838- The Lyttelton 1913), who also owned land Times, 15 February in the vicinity. 1866, p 2 Referred to as “Caledonia “Magisterial”, Star, Road” in the Lyttleton Times 23 September 1868, in 1866. p 3 Caledonian Road is first “Avon Road mentioned in the Star in Board”, Star, 22 1868, becomes a public road October 1875, p 3 in 1875, appears in street directories in 1878 and is shown on an 1879 map. Calgary Place Named after Hornby South The street names in this Anchorage Calgary, a city in business subdivision have a Road, Canada the province of Canadian theme. Crescent, Edmonton Alberta, Canada. First appears in street Road, directories in 1995. Klondyke Drive, Prairie Place and Yukon Place. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 5 of 169 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Callan Place Named after John Hoon Hay Callan was a lawyer, Alpers Place, “Judges’ names”, View the Bartholomew university, judge and Catholic Barrowclough The Press, 17 biography of John Callan (1882- layman. Road, September 1968, p 1 Bartholomew 1951). Dalglish In a 145-acre housing Callan in the Place, Fair Dictionary of New subdivision planned by the Place, Haslam housing division of the Zealand Crescent, Ministry of Works. The land Biography. Herdman was purchased from the "New Halswell Road, Church Property Trustees and subdivision", The Leicester the Loughnan estate. Press, 8 December Crescent, 1960, p 19 In 1968 the street names sub- McCarthy committee of the council felt Street, Myers "Hoon Hay that as Halswell was named Place, subdivision after a prominent English Northcroft provides 570 Queen's Counsel it would be Road, O'Leary sections", The appropriate to record the Street, Ostler Press, 30 names of judges in street Place, September 1964, p names there. Many of them Salmond Road 1 had been QCs or KCs before and Stanton appointment to the Bench. Crescent. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 6 of 169 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Calverton Place Named after Halswell In the Oaklands subdivision Oaklands Information Calverton, north- which was developed by Karl supplied in 2008 by east of Scott (1910-1997), a Bede Cosgriff (d. Nottingham in journalist and developer. His 2011) in an England. father's family had emigrated interview with from Nottingham in the early Margaret Harper. 20th century. First appears in street directories in 1987. Calypso Place Named after the Brooklands In a subdivision at 346A Hemingway Shirley/Papanui calypso, a Lower Styx Road, adjoining Place, Community Board mythical sea the southern portion of Nautilus Place agenda 21 nymph. Seafield Park, by Smith and Seabrooke November 2001 Developments Ltd. Drive. The names chosen all have a connection with the sea. Named in 2001. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 7 of 169 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: C Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Camberwell Camberwell Named after Avonhead Camberwell Avenue first “Street names”, The Place Avenue Camberwell, a appears in street directories in Papanui Herald, 17 district of London 1972. Becomes Camberwell April 1973, p 9 in the Borough of Place in 1981. Southwark. About 1963 the Waimairi County Council minuted a policy that all its streets be named after English place names. Cambridge Waterloo Named after Central City One of the original streets of Reproduction of G R Macdonald Terrace Terrace. Cambridge Christchurch named in 1850 Edward Jollie's dictionary of Avonside Road University. by Edward Jollie (1825- 1850 map of the Canterbury was Cambridge does 1894), and Captain Joseph proposed city. biographies: J169 incorporated not have a Thomas (b. 1803?). The Department of & T144 into Cambridge cathedral so this is Lands and Survey, names were taken from “Obituary”, The Burke's Christchurch. Terrace. out-of-step with bishoprics listed in Press, 9 August the method used Peerage. Historical Maps 1894, p 5e by Jollie and On an 1879 map Cambridge "Advertisements", Thomas in naming “Obituary”, Star, 9 Terrace West intersects The Lyttelton other streets. August 1894, p 1 Market Square (later Victoria Times, 7 August Square). 1852, p 2 View the biography of Waterloo Terrace was the Reminiscences of a Joseph Thomas in name on the first plan of the surveyor, runholder the Dictionary of road along the river [Avon] and politician in New Zealand from Market Place to past the Canterbury and Biography.

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