Main Road

89 reports at 44 addresses in Governors Bay, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 77 separate days somebody filed something about it.

89 reports 44 addresses77 days reported on2 on the register from the air, then 984 documents carry the name 3 businessesthe 903rd 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 Main Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Governors Bay.

From the air, then

Main Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · 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

75 Main Road, 11 reports
4 Main Road, 5 reports
79 Main Road, 4 reports
36 Main Road, 4 reports
13 Main Road, 4 reports
112 Main Road, 4 reports
52 Main Road, 3 reports
45 Main Road, 3 reports
34 Main Road, 3 reports
1 Main Road, 3 reports
98 Main Road, 2 reports
72 Main Road, 2 reports
66 Main Road, 2 reports
23 Main Road, 2 reports
21 Main Road, 2 reports
187 Main Road, 2 reports
179 Main Road, 2 reports
171 Main Road, 2 reports
157 Main Road, 2 reports
14 Main Road, 2 reports
125 Main Road, 2 reports
85 Main Road, 1 report
8 Main Road, 1 report
61 Main Road, 1 report
49 Main Road, 1 report
43 Main Road, 1 report
41 Main Road, 1 report
40 Main Road, 1 report
37 Main Road, 1 report
19A Main Road, 1 report
195 Main Road, 1 report
175 Main Road, 1 report
169 Main Road, 1 report
165 Main Road, 1 report
159 Main Road, 1 report
155 Main Road, 1 report
148–158 Main Road, 1 report
145 Main Road, 1 report
132 Main Road, 1 report
122 Main Road, 1 report
120 Main Road, 1 report
119-125 Main Road, 1 report
118 Main Road, 1 report
100 Main Road, 1 report

What got reported

Trees & parks, 28 reports
Roads & footpaths, 26 reports
Water & drains, 15 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 10 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 6 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2017, 1 report
2018, 1 report
2020, 2 reports
2021, 6 reports
2022, 8 reports
2023, 12 reports
2024, 10 reports
2025, 30 reports

On the register

Former Governors Bay School Master's House and Setting, 112 Main Road
Former Governors Bay School and Setting, 112 Main Road

On foot, The bay and the hill walks this street.

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 businesses on it, 3

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

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.

Ōhinetahi archaeological site · 25 m away Te Whakataka archaeological site · 47 m away Govenor's Bay Jetty jetty · 341 m away Cholmondeley Reserve set of steps · 10 m away Governors Bay Community Centre shelter · 19 m away Governors Bay Community Centre set of steps · 21 m away Governors Bay Community Centre set of steps · 22 m away Governors Bay Community Centre boardwalk · 23 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Main Road in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 1 seriously hurt.

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.