{"id":420,"date":"2021-04-23T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/?page_id=420"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:57:56","slug":"edgeware-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/edgeware-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgeware | History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edgeware Road<br>Named after Edgware Road in London and a railway station.<br>Originally an accommodation road i.e. a route for stock.<br>Edmund Green is listed living at Edgeware Road in 1866.<br>First appears in street directories in 1878 and appears on an 1879 map.<br>[The name has been altered with the addition of another \u201ce\u201d.]<br>Named by William Henry Butler (1837?-1915), a bricklayer from Nottingham, at a public meeting held to name streets in the district about 1874. He built the first house in the street.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/PlaceNames\/ChristchurchStreetNames-D-E.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/PlaceNames\/ChristchurchStreetNames-D-E.pdf<\/a>, Page 96<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgeware RoadNamed after Edgware Road in London and a railway station.Originally an accommodation road i.e. a route for stock.Edmund Green is listed living at Edgeware Road in 1866.First appears in street directories in 1878 and appears on an 1879 map.[The name has been altered with the addition of another \u201ce\u201d.]Named by William Henry Butler (1837?-1915), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/edgeware-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edgeware | History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}