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Saint Albans Creek

A stream of the city, 5.5 km as the open map draws it, crossing 4 suburbs.

As the line runs
5.5 km
Suburbs crossed
4
Register places near it
12

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

Edgeware · Merivale · Richmond · Saint Albans

On the register along it

Listed places within about 200m of the line, near the water, not necessarily of it.

The reports along it

5,610 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 4,591 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Walks that cross it

The old north road · The houses the avenues kept

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Saint Albans Creek?

5.5 km as mapped, 70 ways in the open map, crossing 4 suburbs.

Which suburbs does Saint Albans Creek pass through?

Edgeware, Merivale, Richmond, Saint Albans.

What’s on the record along Saint Albans Creek?

12 register places sit within 200m of its line, each opens its own record from this page.

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/saint-albans-creek.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.