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Vernon Terrace

109 reports at 40 addresses in Hillsborough, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 99 separate days somebody filed something about it.

109 reports40 addresses99 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 703rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Vernon Terrace, 22 reports11R Vernon Terrace, 11 reports2 Vernon Terrace, 7 reports5 Vernon Terrace, 5 reports96 Vernon Terrace, 4 reports9 Vernon Terrace, 4 reports7 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports54 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports52 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports4 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports30 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports11 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports10 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports94 Vernon Terrace, 2 reports65 Vernon Terrace, 2 reports64 Vernon Terrace, 2 reports51-53 Vernon Terrace, 2 reports39A Vernon Terrace, 2 reports21A Vernon Terrace, 2 reports15 Vernon Terrace, 2 reports1-5 Vernon Terrace, 2 reports9–13 Vernon Terrace, 1 report96-94 Vernon Terrace, 1 report90 Vernon Terrace, 1 report86 Vernon Terrace, 1 report78 Vernon Terrace, 1 report53A Vernon Terrace, 1 report49 Vernon Terrace, 1 report47 Vernon Terrace, 1 report44 Vernon Terrace, 1 report35A Vernon Terrace, 1 report32 Vernon Terrace, 1 report29A Vernon Terrace, 1 report29 Vernon Terrace, 1 report28 Vernon Terrace, 1 report20 Vernon Terrace, 1 report16 Vernon Terrace, 1 report15-17 Vernon Terrace, 1 report13 Vernon Terrace, 1 report108 Vernon Terrace, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Vernon Terrace from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Vernon Terrace from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Vernon Terrace from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Vernon Terrace 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; 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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Vernon Terrace in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Vernon Terrace?

In Hillsborough, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Vernon Terrace?

109 reports at 40 addresses, most often water & drains (36), roads & footpaths (26), trees & parks (14).

When was Vernon Terrace first reported on?

2016, the record covers 99 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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