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Parish Street

7 reports at 5 addresses in Burwood, the first in 2019, the latest 2025. 7 separate days somebody filed something about it.

7 reports5 addresses7 days reported onfrom the air, then88 documents carry the namethe 3653rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Parish Street, 2 reports20 Parish Street, 2 reports4–22 Parish Street, 1 report19 Parish Street, 1 report17 Parish Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Parish Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Parish Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Parish Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Parish 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 88 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Parish Street?

In Burwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Parish Street?

7 reports at 5 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (3), trees & parks (3), water & drains (1).

When was Parish Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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