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Mobil

Mobil is a petrol station at 23 Main North Road, Papanui, Christchurch, inside the Papanui/Northlands commercial centre.

Checked 16 Oct 2026

23 Main North Road

Street record, Main North Road →

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Nearest bus stop
14 m
Petrol stations in the suburb
2

Getting there

Bus stop, Main North near Loftus St 14 m · Routes 1, 27, 95, 125, Oc · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Main Nth Rd near Loftus St 32 m · Routes 1, 27, 95, 125, Oa · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Harewood Rd near Restell St 160 m · Routes 27, 125, Oa · ECan bus stops
Cycle lane Passes the door · in service · Council cycleway layer
The street, Main North Road Reports, crashes and the rest of the record along it Directions → Walking, cycling and driving routes, on Google Maps Street View → The kerb as Google photographed it: worth a look before a first visit

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Straight-line distances from the pin, not walking routes.

Nearby

Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Maps Parks layer, refreshed 2026-10-10. Distances are straight-line from the business pin, not walking routes.

The nearest other petrol stations

All 2 petrol stations in Papanui → · Every one in the city →

The other Mobil doors, 10 on the roll

The first 8: Every Mobil on the roll →

Also in Papanui

Every kind of business in Papanui →

What the record holds

Every fact with the source that states it, Papanui (the suburb’s page) · record assembled 16 Oct 2026
FactWhat the source saysSource
Address23 Main North Road, Christchurch 8053OpenStreetMap
KindPetrol stationsOpenStreetMap

A name, a kind and a pin, the sources carry little more. Add what you know on OpenStreetMap →

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The ground it stands on

Facts about the spot the pin marks, the land, not the business. A consent may belong to the building, the landlord or a neighbour
FactWhat the source saysSource
District Plan zoneTown centre zoneDistrict Plan
Commercial centrePapanui/Northlands, district centreDistrict Plan

What stood on this ground → · Documents that name it →

What stood on Main North Road

On the Main North Road from Christchurch last Friday
1925, On the Main North Road from Christchurch last Friday

From Kura Heritage Collections Online. This photograph names the street, not this business. The street page pairs it with a Street View pose verified outside Shields Pharmacy, 2019-06. The street’s then and now →

The reports nearby

1,181 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 1,010 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

The 1,181 reports on file

Questions, answered briefly

What is Mobil?

A petrol station in Papanui, Christchurch.

Where is Mobil?

23 Main North Road, Papanui, on Main North Road. On the map →

Is Mobil still trading?

On OpenStreetMap.

What other petrol stations are near Mobil?

BP 2go (454 m), Challenge (1.1 km), Waitomo (1.2 km), every one in the city.

What’s near Mobil?

the address’s own record holds 6 reports; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest The China Kitchen Restaurant (22 m); the Main North near Loftus St bus stop is 14 m away: routes 1, 27, 95, 125, Oc; a cycle lane passes the door; nearest park: Papanui Memorial Reserve (153 m).

What stood where Mobil is, before?

The heritage-register places nearest the pin →

The record behind this

This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); council and ECan data under CC BY 4.0; Wikidata CC0. Something wrong? Fix it on OpenStreetMap or tell us. The whole directory lives at /businesses. This page as markdown: /business/mobil-papanui.md.