281 Bridle Path Road

On the register here

• Dwelling and Setting, Ferrymead House, 285 Bridle Path Road (144m)

From the air, then

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The green nearby

• Ferrymead Reserve, 11 m to the edge · Botanic · 1 ha
• Settlers Reserve, 264 m to the edge · 13 ha
• Cannon Hill Reserve, 266 m to the edge · 3 ha
• Old School Reserve, 486 m to the edge · 3 ha · playground, 66 pieces

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Mount Pleasant Bed & Breakfast, 244 m away · B&Bs
• Ferrymead Night Market, 290 m away · Markets
• Ferrymead Dental Centre, 366 m away · Dentists

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Bridle Path Rd near Ferrymead Park Dr, 58 m away · route 155
• Bridle Path Rd near Cannon Hill Cres, 58 m away · route 155

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Ferrymead, 355 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Christchurch / City Council Your People Your City, 174 m away · CHRISTCHURCH / CITY COUNCIL YOUR PEOPLE YOUR CITY · 2013
• New Zealand’S First Railway This Stone Marks the Site, 189 m away · NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST RAILWAY THIS STONE MARKS THE SITE OF FERRYMEAD WHARF AND RAILWAY STATI · 2009
• Ferrymead / Christchurch, 191 m away · FERRYMEAD / CHRISTCHURCH · 2013

Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.

What gets reported here

• Parks, 3
• Water Leak, 2
• Rubbish/Recycling, 2
• Roading/Streets, 1
• Park - General Request, 1
• Graffiti somewhere else, 1

Photographed here 12 on record

more photographs
on the Ferrymead wall →

What’s on record

• Park - General Request, 8 Dec 2025 homeless people have set up camp in council yard beside ferrymead park drive. Some concern around public safety with activities obsreved.
• Fallen Tree, 16 Nov 2025 Fallen tree on path near heritage railway sheds
• Water Leak, 14 Oct 2024 Flushing point leaking at PS0052
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Oct 2024 Grafitti at PS0052
• Graffiti somewhere else, 15 Aug 2024 Looks like it used to be a public toilet. This is near the bus stop on Bridle Path Road.
• Water Leak, 7 Dec 2020
• Parks, 7 Dec 2020 water leak from disused toilets forming a lake in park
• Parks, 2 Dec 2020 water pooling behind Bridle Path reserve toilet block and flowing into Tramway Society property
• Rubbish/Recycling, 5 Dec 2018 Dumped wrecked car
• Rubbish/Recycling, 14 Jun 2018 Full cartons
• Parks, 24 Oct 2015 Burnt picnic table?
• Roading/Streets, 25 Jul 2015 Paths neef some attention

Elsewhere on Bridle Path Road

• 225 Bridle Path Road, 97 reports
• 256 Bridle Path Road, 40 reports
• 289 Bridle Path Road, 31 reports
• 269 Bridle Path Road, 27 reports
• 275 Bridle Path Road, 22 reports
• 279 Bridle Path Road, 20 reports
• 271 Bridle Path Road, 20 reports
• 270 Bridle Path Road, 11 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Bridle Path Road in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

The civic layer

This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.