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Cowlishaw Street

319 reports at 61 addresses in Avonside, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 255 separate days somebody filed something about it.

319 reports61 addresses255 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 214th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

71 Cowlishaw Street, 30 reports14 Cowlishaw Street, 21 reports48 Cowlishaw Street, 16 reports12 Cowlishaw Street, 16 reports79 Cowlishaw Street, 11 reports67 Cowlishaw Street, 11 reports22 Cowlishaw Street, 11 reports7 Cowlishaw Street, 10 reports75 Cowlishaw Street, 9 reports53 Cowlishaw Street, 9 reports59 Cowlishaw Street, 8 reports46 Cowlishaw Street, 8 reports44 Cowlishaw Street, 8 reports63 Cowlishaw Street, 7 reports40 Cowlishaw Street, 7 reports34 Cowlishaw Street, 7 reports16B Cowlishaw Street, 7 reports81 Cowlishaw Street, 6 reports56 Cowlishaw Street, 6 reports29 Cowlishaw Street, 6 reports93 Cowlishaw Street, 5 reports91 Cowlishaw Street, 5 reports49 Cowlishaw Street, 5 reports38 Cowlishaw Street, 5 reports19 Cowlishaw Street, 5 reports77 Cowlishaw Street, 4 reports62 Cowlishaw Street, 4 reports60 Cowlishaw Street, 4 reports55 Cowlishaw Street, 4 reports47 Cowlishaw Street, 4 reports30 Cowlishaw Street, 4 reports17 Cowlishaw Street, 4 reports83 Cowlishaw Street, 3 reports50 Cowlishaw Street, 3 reports25 Cowlishaw Street, 3 reports20 Cowlishaw Street, 3 reports17A Cowlishaw Street, 3 reports15 Cowlishaw Street, 3 reports87 Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports58 Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports42B Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports42A Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports39 Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports36 Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports28 Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports21 Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports16A Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports16 Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports15B Cowlishaw Street, 2 reports71A Cowlishaw Street, 1 report65 Cowlishaw Street, 1 report58A Cowlishaw Street, 1 report57 Cowlishaw Street, 1 report48-50 Cowlishaw Street, 1 report44A Cowlishaw Street, 1 report42G Cowlishaw Street, 1 report42D Cowlishaw Street, 1 report33 Cowlishaw Street, 1 report32 Cowlishaw Street, 1 report22A Cowlishaw Street, 1 report13 Cowlishaw Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cowlishaw Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cowlishaw Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cowlishaw Street 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

and the other 1 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 14 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 63 m away Avon Riverbank True Right set of steps · 109 m away Avon Riverbank True Right boat ramp · 112 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cowlishaw Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

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on the Avonside wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cowlishaw Street?

In Avonside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cowlishaw Street?

319 reports at 61 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (261), graffiti & vandalism (17), trees & parks (14).

When was Cowlishaw Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 255 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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