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Dunbars Road

16 reports at 6 addresses in Aidanfield, the first in 2017, the latest 2025. 16 separate days somebody filed something about it.

16 reports6 addresses16 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 2601st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

128 Dunbars Road, 11 reports97 Dunbars Road, 1 report81A Dunbars Road, 1 report56 Dunbars Road, 1 report29 Dunbars Road, 1 report10 Dunbars Road, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Dunbars Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Aidanfield.

From the air, then

Dunbars Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dunbars Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dunbars Road from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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 addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dunbars Road?

In Aidanfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dunbars Road?

16 reports at 6 addresses, most often trees & parks (11), roads & footpaths (2), water & drains (1).

When was Dunbars Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 16 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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