8 Betwin
1 council report since March 2025, 1 carrying a photograph.
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
- Colman Reserve, 192 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Holmes Park, 207 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 261 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Iona Reserve, 357 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 455 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Belle Bonne Motel, 101 m away · Motels
- Sharon Howells School of Dance, 227 m away · Dance studios
- Liquorland Yaldhurst Road, 281 m away · Bottle stores
- Yaldhurst Family Doctors Medical Practice, 324 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Yaldhurst Rd near Corfe St, 108 m away · route 86, route 140
- Yaldhurst Rd near English St, 183 m away · route 86, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 324 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 354 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 445 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Sockburn ran about $566 a week, $16 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 17 Mar 2025 Overhanging growth pushes into deep gutter
The civic layer
This ground votes in Riccarton 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.
Betwin, the whole record → · Everything about Sockburn → · 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
1 council report on record since March 2025, most often overgrown vegetation (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Betwin.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Colman Reserve, 192 m to its edge.