2 Murphys Road
4 council reports since January 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 20 Murphys Road, 11 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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
- Alvaston Reserve, 176 m to the edge
- Patterson Reserve, 212 m to the edge
- Westbrooke Park, 235 m to the edge · playground, 30 pieces
- Ridder Reserve, 283 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- Wales Kindergarten Reserve, 336 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Newbee Meadery, 387 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Murphys Rd near Halswell Junction Rd, 6 m away · route 7
- Murphys Rd near Graycliffe St, 62 m away · route 7
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Halswell ran about $697 a week, $147 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Road Signage, 1
- Graffiti somewhere else, 1
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 8 Jul 2025 On bus shelter
Facility - General Request, 3 Jul 2025 Leak in bus shelter roof
Road Signage, 30 Jun 2025 I’m a constable with the New Zealand police, I have patrolled murphys road a number of times due to speeding. The 40km signage when turning
Graffiti somewhere else, 15 Jan 2025 Murphys Rd, west side of Halswell Junction intersection - two sides of green utility cabinet
Elsewhere on Murphys Road
- 20 Murphys Road, 11 reports
- 77 Murphys Road, 8 reports
- 70R Murphys Road, 4 reports
- 1 Murphys Road, 4 reports
- 66 Murphys Road, 3 reports
- 62 Murphys Road, 3 reports
- 50 Murphys Road, 3 reports
- 4 Murphys Road, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Murphys Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Murphys Road, the whole record → · Everything about Halswell → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
4 council reports on record since January 2025, most often road signage (1), graffiti somewhere else (1), graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Murphys Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Alvaston Reserve, 176 m to its edge.



