Main Road

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

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

• 2 Main Road, 2 reports

What got reported

• Everything else, 1 report
• Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report

Year by year

• 2025, 1 report

On the register

• Former Dwelling and Setting, 2A Main Road

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 984 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

• WALKS ON THE ROADS. (Wellington Independent, 19 February 1851) · Papers Past, 19 Feb 1851
  …rom the ferry v christchurch in a complete state as it forms part of the intended lino of main road which passes through sumner we hope on a future occasion to complete our glance at the means of land…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 25 March 1854) · Papers Past, 25 Mar 1854
  …nd i td nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 01 April 1854) · Papers Past, 1 Apr 1854
  …and i j nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 08 April 1854) · Papers Past, 8 Apr 1854
  …and jti nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about lr acres broken up…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 15 April 1854) · Papers Past, 15 Apr 1854
  …n and i nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 April 1854) · Papers Past, 22 Apr 1854
  …in and nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 29 April 1854) · Papers Past, 29 Apr 1854
  …in and nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile aud a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 06 May 1854) · Papers Past, 6 May 1854
  …nd jb nearly 40 acres broken up about a niile and a quarter from christchjirch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres ofland with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up a…
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 28 October 1854) · Papers Past, 28 Oct 1854
  …christchurch and a first-rate position for merchants stores and waterside premises on the main road from lyttelton to christchurch for particulars and inspection of plan apply to mr cridland architect…
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 01 November 1854) · Papers Past, 1 Nov 1854
  …christchurch and a first-rate position for merchants store and waterside premises on the main road from lyttelton to christchurch for particulars and inspection of plan apply to mr ciudland architect…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 08 November 1854) · Papers Past, 8 Nov 1854
  …christchurch and a first-rate position for merchants stores and waterside premises on the main road from lyttehou to christchurch for particulars and inspection of plan apply to mr ceidlanb architect…
• REPORT. (Lyttelton Times, 16 May 1855) · Papers Past, 16 May 1855
  …x wakefield as rural section no 2 and instead of setting out the most suitable line for a main road through the section in lieu of the streets then abandoned the only communication reserved from the e…

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Main Road in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.

• Evans, Charles, Papauni Laboure (Lyttelton Times, 20 February 1856) · Lyttelton Times, 20 Feb 1856
• Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 13 July 1859) · Lyttelton Times, 13 Jul 1859
• Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 31 August 1859) · Lyttelton Times, 31 Aug 1859
• PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (Lyttelton Times, 06 November 1861) · Lyttelton Times, 6 Nov 1861
• The Lyttelton Times. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1861. (Lyttelton Times, 16 November 1861) · Lyttelton Times, 16 Nov 1861
• Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 25 January 1862) · Lyttelton Times, 25 Jan 1862
• PUBLIC WORKS.-CANTERBURY. (FROM THE "LYTTELTON TIMES.") (Daily Southern Cross, 05 February 1863) · Daily Southern Cross, 5 Feb 1863
• CANTERBURY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) (Daily Southern Cross, 02 December 1863) · Daily Southern Cross, 2 Dec 1863
• THE FIRST RAILWAY IN NEW ZEALAND. (Wellington Independent, 12 December 1863) · Wellington Independent, 12 Dec 1863
• OPENING OP THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (West Coast Times, 26 October 1866) · West Coast Times, 26 Oct 1866
• PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (Timaru Herald, 26 June 1867) · Timaru Herald, 26 Jun 1867
• THE GENERAL ELECTIONS. (Star, 10 January 1871) · Star, 10 Jan 1871
• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (Thames Star, 24 October 1879) · Thames Star, 24 Oct 1879
• AFTERNOON SITTING. (Star, 24 October 1879) · Star, 24 Oct 1879
• TOWN & COUNTRY. (Timaru Herald, 19 November 1894) · Timaru Herald, 19 Nov 1894
• NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. (Poverty Bay Herald, 25 June 1902) · Poverty Bay Herald, 25 Jun 1902
• LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Wanganui Herald, 07 December 1905) · Wanganui Herald, 7 Dec 1905
• Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Ashburton Guardian, 02 December 1910) · Ashburton Guardian, 2 Dec 1910
• NEW ZEALAND'S NATIONAL RAILWAYS (Evening Post, 08 February 1935) · Evening Post, 8 Feb 1935
• SOUTH ISLAND LINE COST' £4,645,907 (Evening Post, 17 December 1945) · Evening Post, 17 Dec 1945

As it was reported

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on the Ferrymead wall →

The latest on it

• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 2 Main Road, 14 Sept 2026
• Facility - General Request, 2 Main Road, 8 Nov 2025