Ferry Road

527 reports at 96 addresses in Ferrymead, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 346 separate days somebody filed something about it.

527 reports 96 addresses346 days reported onfrom the air, then 1,832 documents carry the name 39 businessesthe 118th 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 Ferry Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Ferrymead.

From the air, then

Ferry Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Ferry Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Ferry Road 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

982 Ferry Road, 63 reports
992 Ferry Road, 40 reports
1070 Ferry Road, 31 reports
1005 Ferry Road, 25 reports
988 Ferry Road, 21 reports
1016 Ferry Road, 16 reports
960 Ferry Road, 14 reports
1105 Ferry Road, 14 reports
1002 Ferry Road, 14 reports
980 Ferry Road, 12 reports
1014 Ferry Road, 11 reports
931 Ferry Road, 10 reports
1060 Ferry Road, 10 reports
1010B Ferry Road, 10 reports
1004A Ferry Road, 10 reports
999 Ferry Road, 9 reports
800 Ferry Road, 8 reports
1013 Ferry Road, 8 reports
950 Ferry Road, 7 reports
940 Ferry Road, 7 reports
1000 Ferry Road, 7 reports
987 Ferry Road, 6 reports
1020 Ferry Road, 6 reports
1005G Ferry Road, 6 reports
1004 Ferry Road, 6 reports
954 Ferry Road, 5 reports
930 Ferry Road, 5 reports
1091 Ferry Road, 5 reports
1027 Ferry Road, 5 reports
1017-1025 Ferry Road, 5 reports
1010E Ferry Road, 5 reports
979-987 Ferry Road, 4 reports
952 Ferry Road, 4 reports
1099 Ferry Road, 4 reports
1035 Ferry Road, 4 reports
1030E Ferry Road, 4 reports
1030 Ferry Road, 4 reports
1026 Ferry Road, 4 reports
1022 Ferry Road, 4 reports
1011-1015 Ferry Road, 4 reports
1005C Ferry Road, 4 reports
933 Ferry Road, 3 reports
6/1063 Ferry Road, 3 reports
1063 Ferry Road, 3 reports
1030G Ferry Road, 3 reports
1025 Ferry Road, 3 reports
1013A Ferry Road, 3 reports
1010 Ferry Road, 3 reports
1008 Ferry Road, 3 reports
1004G Ferry Road, 3 reports
1003 Ferry Road, 3 reports
987-999 Ferry Road, 2 reports
970 Ferry Road, 2 reports
966 Ferry Road, 2 reports
964 Ferry Road, 2 reports
950b Ferry Road, 2 reports
931-945 Ferry Road, 2 reports
3/954 Ferry Road, 2 reports
2/1008 Ferry Road, 2 reports
15/1005 Ferry Road, 2 reports

and the other 36 the record names

1013D Ferry Road, 2 reports
1005H Ferry Road, 2 reports
999-1009 Ferry Road, 1 report
996 Ferry Road, 1 report
991 Ferry Road, 1 report
989 Ferry Road, 1 report
988-996 Ferry Road, 1 report
987-997 Ferry Road, 1 report
970-986 Ferry Road, 1 report
968 Ferry Road, 1 report
967 Ferry Road, 1 report
945 Ferry Road, 1 report
925 Ferry Road, 1 report
923 Ferry Road, 1 report
903 Ferry Road, 1 report
6/1004 Ferry Road, 1 report
5/950 Ferry Road, 1 report
1105A Ferry Road, 1 report
1099R Ferry Road, 1 report
1063d Ferry Road, 1 report
1059 Ferry Road, 1 report
1045 Ferry Road, 1 report
1037-1041 Ferry Road, 1 report
1030F Ferry Road, 1 report
1030B Ferry Road, 1 report
1020K Ferry Road, 1 report
1020D Ferry Road, 1 report
1017 Ferry Road, 1 report
1014a Ferry Road, 1 report
1010A Ferry Road, 1 report
1005B Ferry Road, 1 report
1004a Ferry Road, 1 report
1004R Ferry Road, 1 report
1004F Ferry Road, 1 report
1001 Ferry Road, 1 report
1/1105 Ferry Road, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 333 reports
Roads & footpaths, 77 reports
Trees & parks, 37 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 32 reports
Water & drains, 25 reports
Vehicles & parking, 10 reports
Everything else, 10 reports
Animals & pests, 3 reports

Year by year

2015, 5 reports
2016, 12 reports
2017, 45 reports
2018, 26 reports
2019, 19 reports
2020, 25 reports
2021, 59 reports
2022, 99 reports
2023, 67 reports
2024, 81 reports
2025, 56 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,832 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1851) · Papers Past, 12 Apr 1851
…f land excavating sites for buildings embanking c john wilson and charles bourn heathcote ferry road near christchurch g allen 13egs respectfully to announce to the l-f inhabitants of christchurch tha…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 February 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Feb 1852
…on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchurch messrs taylor howard t espectfully inform the public ti that they are now enabled…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 27 March 1852) · Papers Past, 27 Mar 1852
…on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchurch…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 03 April 1852) · Papers Past, 3 Apr 1852
…on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road nearchristchurch j f smart carman c corner of madras street and sumner soad at the entrance of chri…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 17 April 1852) · Papers Past, 17 Apr 1852
…on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchtm-h registry and general agency office cj gibbs begs to inform the public that nj he…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 01 May 1852) · Papers Past, 1 May 1852
…on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchurch caversham house christchurch t f smart begs to inform the gentry and inhabitants…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 12 June 1852) · Papers Past, 12 Jun 1852
…sections in lyttelton and christchurch also rural lanu on the christchurch and heath cote-ferry road on the p-ipanui road and near riccarton cookson bowler co lyttelton jnne 101852 to be let on lease…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…market place christch gunsmith disher william john armagh st christch carter dixon joseph ferry road labourer dobbs arthur governor bay gentleman dobson alfred tuam st christch architect and surveyor…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…am benjamin heathcote river gentleman alfrey george near river avon labourer allen george ferry road market gardener allen james london st lyttelton shoemaker allen joseph oxford ter christch shoemake…
Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…ay lyttelton cattle agent paddock charles loudon street lyttelton carpenteil palmer david ferry road labourer papprill joseph william market-place christchurch labourer parish john ferry road labourer…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…an brown thomas riccarton road labourer bruer thomas london st lyttelton baker bryan john ferry road labourer bryan thomas mitchell riccarton brickmaker bryant william london st lyttelton shoemaker bu…
Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…d mariner marsh isaac riccarton labourer marsh thomas h port albert mariner marshall john ferry road labourer marshman john canterbury street lyttelton accountant martin john bridle path labourer maso…

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

The businesses on it, 39

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

…and 27 more whose address names it.

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.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 10 m away Ferry Esplanade Reserve footbridge · 8 m away Roundabout Reserve set of steps · 10 m away Roundabout Reserve footbridge · 34 m away Ferry Esplanade Reserve viewing platform · 54 m away unnamed jetty · 55 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ferry Road in 41 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 11 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Ferry Road & Fitzgerald Avenue, 68 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.