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Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on f, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.

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 →

On the register here

• Biology and Observatory Block and Setting, 7 Hereford Street
• Captain Robert Falcon Scott Statue and Setting, 153 Oxford Terrace
• Chemistry Building and Setting, 3/5 Hereford Street
• Commercial Building and Setting, Former Sargood Son and Ewen, 92 Lichfield Street
• Commercial Building and Setting, Former Wellington Woollen Mills Manufacturing Company, 96 Lichfield Street
• Dwelling/Commercial Building and Setting, 147 Fitzgerald Avenue
• Edmonds Clock Tower, Telephone Cabinet and Setting, 295F Madras Street
• Electrical Engineering Extension, School of Engineering, and Setting, 15 Hereford Street
• Electrical Engineering Laboratory, School of Engineering, and Setting, 13 Hereford Street
• Former Dwelling and Setting, 14 Oxford Terrace
• Former Dwelling and Setting, 95 Oxford Terrace
• Former Midland Club and Setting, 176 Oxford Terrace
• Former Municipal Chambers and Setting, 159 Oxford Terrace
• Girls' High School/School of Art Block and Setting, 101/1 Hereford Street
• Library and Setting, 13 Hereford Street
• Men's Common Room and Setting, 7 Hereford Street
• Mill Island and Setting, 71 Hereford Street
• North and South Quadrangles and Setting, 13 Hereford Street
• Physics Building and Setting, 7 Hereford Street
• St Luke's Chapel and Setting, 272 Hereford Street

On foot, The old university · The city’s stones · The boulevard · Belfries and chapels walk this street.

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name f, 34,394 in total; the 12 earliest:

• LAST- NIGHT'S MEETING. (New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, 15 December 1841) · Papers Past · 15 Dec 1841
  …and was very numerously and respectably attended all the resolutions with the exception of the 6th were carried unanimously to the 6th an amendment was moved by mr hanson and a long and animated disc…
• WALKS ON THE ROADS. (Wellington Independent, 19 February 1851) · Papers Past · 19 Feb 1851
  walks on the roads no ithe bridle-path to the ferrt across the heathcote this means of communication between the port and the plain issues from the town of…
• RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 01 March 1851) · Papers Past · 1 Mar 1851
  …al sections chosen we think it will be interesting to our readers to know the selections of land which have hitherto beeii made by the first body of land-purchasers mr brittan has kind jy supplied us…
• RURAL SECTIONS-CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 08 March 1851) · Papers Past · 8 Mar 1851
  rural sections-chosen continued from our last no 19 j b lee 100 acres in the christchurch district commencing at the south-west corner of sect…
• RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 29 March 1851) · Papers Past · 29 Mar 1851
  rural sections chosen continued from our last no 71 h wrced 50 acres in the christchurch district commencing at the south-west corner of the r…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1851) · Papers Past · 12 Apr 1851
  lyttelton to let three plots of ground each 21ft 6in wide by 165 ft in depth apply to j tulloch auctioneer 11 esplanade april 10 1851 buildi…
• RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 19 April 1851) · Papers Past · 19 Apr 1851
  rural sections chosen continued from our last no 105 c jackson 100 acres in the christchurch district commencing on the north road 50 links fr…
• RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1851) · Papers Past · 26 Apr 1851
  rural sections chosen continued from our last no 118 tevans 50 acres in the christchurch district commencing 50 links from the south-west corn…
• RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 03 May 1851) · Papers Past · 3 May 1851
  rural sections chosen concluded from our last no 139 g c beard 50 acres in the christchurch district commencing at the southwest corner of sec…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 31 May 1851) · Papers Past · 31 May 1851
  for sale a weather-boarded house 12 feet by 10 for particulars apply at the office of this paper on sale at th…
• Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 28 June 1851) · Papers Past · 28 Jun 1851
  money wanted the sum of 2001 atlsl per cent for a period of 7 years on mortgage of a well secured chief orground of 501 fper annum i…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 16 August 1851) · Papers Past · 16 Aug 1851
  to merchants sheep fanntt mhe undersigned are prepared to j orders for sheep hor b sfe van dieman land or f or iv p irm colonial…

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

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street, relayed, not verified.

• What Christchurch can teach New Zealand about building for the future - Ali Adams, The news · NZ Herald, 22 Oct 2026
• Former CCHL boss arrested, The news · BusinessDesk, 22 Oct 2026
• 21 February fb post by Environment Canterbury Can we ask a favour? We've recently had 225 native plants stolen from our restoration site beside the Eyre River. These plants aren't just there to look…, r/chch · nilnz, 22 Oct 2026
• Christchurch council has investigated 120 complaints about short-term rentals, but no fines have been issued. Nathaniel Herz Jardine says warnings are not enough., The Press · Tina Law, 22 Oct 2026
• Speed limits on several Selwyn roads will drop from 100kph to 80kph, but much of Leeston Rd will retain its higher limit after resident opposition., The Press · Luisa Girao, 22 Oct 2026