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Holmes Stream

A stream of the city, 4.2 km as the open map draws it, crossing 1 suburb.

As the line runs
4.2 km
Suburbs crossed
1

Where it runs

The centre of the water as OpenStreetMap draws it, centrelines, not banks, and not every reach carries water year-round. The faint outlines are suburbs.

The suburbs on its banks

Pigeon Bay

The reports along it

1 council report pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths, 1 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Damaged Road Holmes Bay Valley Rd, Canterbury, Pigeon Bay 7583 · 28 November 2025

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Holmes Stream?

4.2 km as mapped, 1 way in the open map, crossing 1 suburb.

Which suburbs does Holmes Stream pass through?

Pigeon Bay.

Is the line on the map the whole waterway?

It’s the centreline, the middle of the water as mapped on OpenStreetMap, not its banks. A line says where it runs, not how wide it is or whether it carries water today.

The record behind this

The line is OpenStreetMap’s, every named way tagged river, stream, drain or canal inside the city boundary, merged by name (ODbL). A line says where a waterway runs, not how wide it is; the live gauges are instruments, kept on /rivers.

This page as markdown: /river/holmes-stream.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.