The Spur

18 reports at 6 addresses in Clifton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 16 separate days somebody filed something about it.

18 reports 6 addresses16 days reported on1 on the register from the air, then 38 documents carry the namethe 2620th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

The Spur from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

The Spur from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

The Spur from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

The Spur from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

6 The Spur, 5 reports
10 The Spur, 4 reports
8 The Spur, 3 reports
5 The Spur, 3 reports
5A The Spur, 2 reports
4 The Spur, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 6 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 6 reports
Everything else, 2 reports
Trees & parks, 2 reports
Vehicles & parking, 1 report
Rubbish & dumping, 1 report

Year by year

2019, 2 reports
2021, 1 report
2022, 3 reports
2023, 2 reports
2024, 7 reports
2025, 2 reports

On the register

Dwelling and Setting, 1 The Spur

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 38 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

No. I.—THE BRIDLE-PATH TO THE PERRY (Lyttelton Times, 18 January 1851) · Papers Past, 18 Jan 1851
…assable for carts or drays up to its com mencemeut the road winds round the lower part of the spur which divides the two small bays on whose shores the town is mapped out and then ascends along its ea…
WALKS ON THE ROADS. (Wellington Independent, 19 February 1851) · Papers Past, 19 Feb 1851
…passable for carts or drays up to its commencement the road winds round the lower part of the spur which divides the two small bays on whose shores the town is mapped out and then ascends along its ea…
REPORT (Lyttelton Times, 22 April 1854) · Papers Past, 22 Apr 1854
…9 we found that there were only two i lines worthy of consideration i the ist winding up the spurs at the i back of lyttelton to a tunnel 600 yards in f length at the head of the gulley descending 1…
REPORT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SUMMER ROAD. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1855) · Papers Past, 19 May 1855
…ent partly in cutting and partly in embankment on the eastern side to reach the summit of the spur which is about 60 feet above the sea the descent on the western side of moabone point will be in rock…
Chapter IV.-The Rail. (Lyttelton Times, 07 November 1855) · Papers Past, 7 Nov 1855
…yttelion except ai moabone point vvhere it would be necessary to go round instead of over the spur ii s p u rtin of the road would be expiiissv us it would have to be formed in euibiik jn t at the foo…
THE BRIDLE PATH & THE ADJOINING HILLS. (Lyttelton Times, 31 December 1856) · Papers Past, 31 Dec 1856
…irst of these passes is accessible from the heathcote ferry by the old bullock track i up the spur of mount pleasant which rises u from 4 ft to 13 ft per chain yy a tolerably direct road might belaid…
The Lyttelton Times. (Lyttelton Times, 22 October 1859) · Papers Past, 22 Oct 1859
…ove that level there are no-material water-courses from the summit-level into the bay and the spur which is thrown out by the mountains into the sea at godley head it woulcl be both uselesstmdripifiut…
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (Lyttelton Times, 04 December 1861) · Papers Past, 4 Dec 1861
…n the north by the ridge of the hills lying on the north side of lyttelton on the east by the spur of the hill running down to the sea immediately on the east side of gollan bay on the south by the se…
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL EXTENSION BILL, 1865. (Timaru Herald, 05 January 1866) · Papers Past, 5 Jan 1866
…on the north by the ridge of the hill lying on the north side of lyttelton on the east by the spur of the hill running down to the sea immediately on the east side of gollan bay on the south by the se…
News of the Week. [FROM THE DAILY TIMES.] (Otago Witness, 09 August 1867) · Papers Past, 9 Aug 1867
…the strenuous efforts of the company to clear that portion of their race situated between the spur and the data have hitherto been unavailing the tuapeka water company have kept their race clear betwe…
News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 15 November 1867) · Papers Past, 15 Nov 1867
…here the sample jas got from is new ground and there js no reason to suppose that many of the spurs to the north wilj not prove equally auriferous the following description of the country at present p…
NEW ZEALAND.-GENERAL NEWS. (Colonist, 16 February 1872) · Papers Past, 16 Feb 1872
…and burned rapidly in the direction of the ferry bridge from thence it speedily ran over the spur setting mr evans fences oa fire when our informant saw it last it was working towards sumner the hill…

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

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Matuku-takotako / Sumner Beach beach · 55 m away Sumner Beach boardwalk · 52 m away Sumner Beach boardwalk · 53 m away Port Hills 11 Rrz Land set of steps · 57 m away Sumner Beach boardwalk · 64 m away Sumner Beach set of steps · 73 m away

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.