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Taylor's Drain

A stream of the city, 1.5 km as the open map draws it, crossing 3 suburbs.

As the line runs
1.5 km
Suburbs crossed
3
Register places near it
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

Bryndwr · Merivale · Strowan

On the register along it

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

The reports along it

1,046 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 847 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pothole 104 Idris Road, Bryndwr · 13 October 2026
General Request 90 Wairarapa Tce · 12 October 2026
Traffic Signals 8 Strowan Rd · 10 October 2026
Flooding Canterbury · 29 September 2026
Abandoned Vehicle 11 Chislehurst Pl · 28 September 2026
Accessibility 97 St Andrews Sq · 23 September 2026
Road Signage 21B Wairakei Rd · 22 September 2026
Roads - General 9 Wairakei Rd · 20 September 2026

Walks that cross it

The houses the avenues kept

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Taylor's Drain?

1.5 km as mapped, 14 ways in the open map, crossing 3 suburbs.

Which suburbs does Taylor's Drain pass through?

Bryndwr, Merivale, Strowan.

What’s on the record along Taylor's Drain?

1 register place sits 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/taylors-drain.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.