Enderley

Enderley is named after a postman's 1899 house. Edward Shoard bought a small farm in 1899,[2] east of Peachgrove Road, between what is now Southwell School and Enderley Avenue,[3] and built a "capacious dwelling-house" called Enderley.[4] It isn't clear why he chose that name, but possibly it was from an 1856 novel, set in an area near his native Bristol.[3] In 1913 the farm was subdivided into 19 residential-sized properties and three streets, one of which was Enderley Avenue.[3] Edward Shoard retired in 1915 after 31 years with the post office[5] and may have moved to Grey Street where he lived in 1920.[6] He moved to Auckland in 1929[7] and died in 1943.[3]

Tramway Road, the eastern boundary of Enderley, was shown as a proposed tramway on an 1865 map.[8] It seems to have been of double width to accommodate a tramway to Cambridge[9] and to have first been discussed by Kirikiriroa Road Board in 1872,[10] though clearing and gravelling didn't start until 1891.[11]

Insoll Avenue was named in 1908 after T.B. Insoll, the owner of the property and a former clerk to the then local council, Waikato County.[12] John Street,[13] Fifth[14] and Enderley Avenues were created in 1913, Enderley being Muriel Street until 1915,[15] when Halifax Street was added.[16] There was little development until the 1920s,[17] electricity being supplied from 1925.[18]

From the start drainage was a problem,[19][20][21] as it was in 1930[22] and remains a problem.[15]

Poets Corner (see below) was a 1959 Housing Corporation project. The area north of Insoll Road was another Housing Corporation development from 1964[23] to 1968.[24]

The Orchard Avenue area was built in 1968, on the site of an orchard.[20] [21]

Also, there is a building project off Tramway Road, to the south-east in Ruakura, where 500 new homes will be built in the area for the new $3.3 billion transport hub being operated by Tainui Group Holdings (TGH). The area now has many middle income homeowners moving in and renovating the older properties as they are seen as good investments and solid first homes being from the 1960s and 1970s.

Around the Fifth Ave area of Enderley there are some streets that mainly have privately owned homes that have been renovated; as this has happened the streets have changed to become safer areas.

According to the 2006 census, Enderley has a population of 5226 (Enderley and Insoll statistical zones).[27] The Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation, ranked 1-10 from lowest to most deprived areas, lists Enderley and Insoll at 10/10 (highest level of deprivation).[28]

Enderley includes two census areas, North and South. In 2018 the census area boundaries were reduced from the previous Insoll and Enderley.[6] The population is growing slowly, but they remain much poorer and younger than the 37.4 years of the national average, as shown below (2013 boundary figures in brackets) -

In 2018 the main ethnic groups were -

Southwell School is an independent co-educational Anglican preparatory school (Year 1-8). The school was founded in 1911. It has a decile rating of 10 and a roll of 652.[29]

• Suburbs of Hamilton, New Zealand