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Welsh Road

18 reports at 7 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

18 reports7 addresses18 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 2472nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Welsh Road, 6 reports7 Welsh Road, 4 reports8 Welsh Road, 2 reports4 Welsh Road, 2 reports10 Welsh Road, 2 reports2 Welsh Road, 1 report16 Welsh Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Welsh Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Welsh Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Welsh Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Welsh Road from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Welsh Road?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Welsh Road?

18 reports at 7 addresses, most often trees & parks (13), water & drains (2), roads & footpaths (2).

When was Welsh Road first reported on?

2021, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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