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Birdling Place

14 reports at 6 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2017, the latest 2025. 13 separate days somebody filed something about it.

14 reports6 addresses13 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2883rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

18 Birdling Place, 6 reports16 Birdling Place, 2 reports10 Birdling Place, 2 reports1 Birdling Place, 2 reports13 Birdling Place, 1 report12 Birdling Place, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Birdling Place, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Halswell.

From the air, then

Birdling Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Birdling Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Birdling Place 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

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

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.

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Birdling Place?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Birdling Place?

14 reports at 6 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (5), trees & parks (4), water & drains (3).

When was Birdling Place first reported on?

2017, the record covers 13 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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