Burwood Road

Where it runs

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

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 addresses on it

• 283 Burwood Road, 22 reports
• 147A Burwood Road, 20 reports
• 165 Burwood Road, 10 reports
• 135 Burwood Road, 9 reports
• 300 Burwood Road, 7 reports
• 274 Burwood Road, 7 reports
• 168E Burwood Road, 7 reports
• 96 Burwood Road, 6 reports
• 187 Burwood Road, 6 reports
• 163A Burwood Road, 6 reports
• 130 Burwood Road, 6 reports
• 330 Burwood Road, 5 reports
• 6 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 331 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 280 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 279 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 265 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 231 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 204D Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 191 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 149 Burwood Road, 4 reports
• 85 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 345 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 308–310 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 263 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 233 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 2 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 177 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 171 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 147 Burwood Road, 3 reports
• 91A Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 91 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 89A Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 82 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 80 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 75 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 69 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 66 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 41 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 355A Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 333 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 329A Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 309 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 303 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 2A Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 293 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 278 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 258 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 216 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 211 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 209 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 204E Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 186 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 170 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 169 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 167 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 163B Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 163 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 159 Burwood Road, 2 reports
• 154 Burwood Road, 2 reports

What got reported

• Graffiti & vandalism, 101 reports
• Roads & footpaths, 71 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 56 reports
• Water & drains, 53 reports
• Trees & parks, 34 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 17 reports
• Everything else, 8 reports
• Noise, 1 report

Year by year

• 2016, 5 reports
• 2017, 12 reports
• 2018, 19 reports
• 2019, 23 reports
• 2020, 17 reports
• 2021, 10 reports
• 2022, 53 reports
• 2023, 59 reports
• 2024, 57 reports
• 2025, 51 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 26 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:

• The Volunteer Field Day. (Star, 26 May 1890) · Papers Past, 26 May 1890
  …commanded by a gun and ould not be forced the infantry of the invaders extended along the burwood road the engineers moving into some plantations as a support on reaching the eastern side of horseshoe…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 17 April 1906) · Papers Past, 17 Apr 1906
  …reabouts gold photo locket finder rewarded 46 tuamjstreet linwood i 2 ost saturday on the burwood road 1 small back board of motor-car please return r kent bedford row 3545 t ost in colombo street 1 p…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 19 April 1906) · Papers Past, 19 Apr 1906
  …t jtitcbella furniture warehouse 19 colombo street near south belt 53533 lost saturday on burwood road small backboard of motor-car please return r kent bedford row 3584 lady engaged nwrningu requires…

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

• Waitākiri Primary School, Contributing · decile 8 · EQI 452 · roll 558

The businesses on it, 13

Premises whose address in the directory is Burwood Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• Bottle O BurwoodBottle stores · 247 Burwood Road Burwood
• Burwood BakeryBakeries · 265 Burwood Road
• Burwood Fish and ChipsFast food · 263 Burwood Road
• Burwood HospitalHospital · 300 Burwood Road
• Burwood Road MotorsCar repair · 247 Burwood Road
• Cinnamon SpiceFast food · 257 Burwood Road
• Greenhaven DairyDairies & convenience · 253 Burwood Road
• Greenhaven Fish & ChipsFast food · 255 Burwood Road
• Liquor centreBottle stores · 247 Burwood Road
• PlunketChildcare · 149 Burwood Road
• Roti Mahal Indian TakeawayFast food · 257 Burwood Road, Burwood
• Stop Hair DesignHairdressers · 259 Burwood Road

…and 1 more whose address names it.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Burwood Road in 50 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 13 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Burwood Road & Mairehau Road, 36 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.

• CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 06 March 1896) · Star, 6 Mar 1896
• PUPIL TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. (Star, 05 January 1898) · Star, 5 Jan 1898
• THE TRAMWAY PROPOSALS. (Star, 09 June 1903) · Star, 9 Jun 1903
• TRAMWAY ROUTES. (Star, 10 July 1905) · Star, 10 Jul 1905
• CHRISTCHURCH SEAT. (Star, 28 October 1905) · Star, 28 Oct 1905
• THE COMING ELECTIONS. (Star, 22 June 1906) · Star, 22 Jun 1906
• THE TRAMWAYS. (Star, 05 December 1906) · Star, 5 Dec 1906
• CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY BOARD. (Star, 14 May 1907) · Star, 14 May 1907
• CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY BOARD. (Star, 06 June 1907) · Star, 6 Jun 1907
• TRAMWAY BOARD. (Star, 16 July 1907) · Star, 16 Jul 1907
• DEATH. (Star, 28 August 1908) · Star, 28 Aug 1908
• TRAMWAY TRAFFIC. (Star, 20 October 1908) · Star, 20 Oct 1908
• ROLL OF HONOUR. (Ashburton Guardian, 31 October 1918) · Ashburton Guardian, 31 Oct 1918
• CAR AND GIG IN COLLISION (Evening Post, 26 July 1926) · Evening Post, 26 Jul 1926
• BURWOOD MURDER (Evening Post, 25 June 1927) · Evening Post, 25 Jun 1927
• BURWOOD MYSTERY (NZ Truth, 04 August 1927) · NZ Truth, 4 Aug 1927
• NEGLIGENCE CHARGE (Evening Post, 29 January 1941) · Evening Post, 29 Jan 1941
• CAUSED TWO DEATHS (Evening Post, 15 February 1941) · Evening Post, 15 Feb 1941
• AIR FORCE CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 10 October 1942) · Evening Post, 10 Oct 1942
• ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 26 May 1943) · Evening Post, 26 May 1943

As it was reported

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The latest on it

• Overgrown Vegetation, 191 Burwood Road, 3 Oct 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2A Burwood Road, 26 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 158 Burwood Road, 26 Sept 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 76 Burwood Road, 2 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 168E Burwood Road, 26 Aug 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 165 Burwood Road, 26 Aug 2026
• General Request, 119 Burwood Rd, 7 Aug 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 144 Burwood Rd, 28 Jul 2026
• Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 168E Burwood Road, 20 Jul 2026
• Traffic Signals urgent safety issue, 299A Burwood Road, 11 Jul 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 278 Burwood Road, 9 Jul 2026
• General Request, 300 Burwood Road, 2 Jul 2026
• Pavement - General, 191 Burwood Rd, 25 Jun 2026
• Damaged Road, 147 Burwood Rd, 11 Jun 2026
• Damaged Road, 252 Burwood Rd, 31 May 2026