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Nicholls Road

154 reports at 36 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 133 separate days somebody filed something about it.

154 reports36 addresses133 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 524th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Nicholls Road, 21 reports1 Nicholls Road, 19 reports17A Nicholls Road, 13 reports9 Nicholls Road, 9 reports28 Nicholls Road, 9 reports44 Nicholls Road, 8 reports33 Nicholls Road, 8 reports8 Nicholls Road, 6 reports25 Nicholls Road, 6 reports1E Nicholls Road, 5 reports17 Nicholls Road, 4 reports72 Nicholls Road, 3 reports6 Nicholls Road, 3 reports46 Nicholls Road, 3 reports43 Nicholls Road, 3 reports4 Nicholls Road, 3 reports31 Nicholls Road, 3 reports3-9 Nicholls Road, 3 reports70 Nicholls Road, 2 reports56 Nicholls Road, 2 reports34 Nicholls Road, 2 reports27 Nicholls Road, 2 reports24 Nicholls Road, 2 reports21A Nicholls Road, 2 reports16 Nicholls Road, 2 reports7 Nicholls Road, 1 report46-50 Nicholls Road, 1 report41 Nicholls Road, 1 report39 Nicholls Road, 1 report38 Nicholls Road, 1 report37 Nicholls Road, 1 report35 Nicholls Road, 1 report23 Nicholls Road, 1 report21 Nicholls Road, 1 report17B Nicholls Road, 1 report11 Nicholls Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Nicholls Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nicholls Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nicholls 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

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 businesses on it, 1

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

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Nicholls Road in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 6 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 1

1 Metro stop on Nicholls Road in Halswell, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 125.

Every route in the 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 Nicholls Road?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Nicholls Road?

154 reports at 36 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (84), roads & footpaths (39), water & drains (14).

When was Nicholls Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 133 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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