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Hereford Street

1,000 reports at 177 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 529 separate days somebody filed something about it.

1,000 reports177 addresses529 days reported onfrom the air, then3,604 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 41st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

425 Hereford Street, 51 reports414 Hereford Street, 47 reports422 Hereford Street, 40 reports407 Hereford Street, 23 reports497 Hereford Street, 21 reports601 Hereford Street, 19 reports516 Hereford Street, 19 reports499 Hereford Street, 17 reports579 Hereford Street, 16 reports495 Hereford Street, 16 reports369 Hereford Street, 15 reports493 Hereford Street, 14 reports553 Hereford Street, 13 reports467 Hereford Street, 13 reports367 Hereford Street, 12 reports496 Hereford Street, 11 reports491 Hereford Street, 11 reports483 Hereford Street, 11 reports479 Hereford Street, 11 reports455 Hereford Street, 11 reports590 Hereford Street, 10 reports478 Hereford Street, 10 reports443 Hereford Street, 10 reports413 Hereford Street, 10 reports396 Hereford Street, 10 reports388 Hereford Street, 10 reports377 Hereford Street, 10 reports372 Hereford Street, 10 reports371 Hereford Street, 10 reports350A Hereford Street, 10 reports527 Hereford Street, 9 reports494 Hereford Street, 9 reports465 Hereford Street, 9 reports435 Hereford Street, 9 reports365 Hereford Street, 9 reports582 Hereford Street, 8 reports532A Hereford Street, 8 reports517A Hereford Street, 8 reports471 Hereford Street, 8 reports426 Hereford Street, 8 reports404 Hereford Street, 8 reports402 Hereford Street, 8 reports617 Hereford Street, 7 reports611 Hereford Street, 7 reports609 Hereford Street, 7 reports605 Hereford Street, 7 reports552 Hereford Street, 7 reports487 Hereford Street, 7 reports462 Hereford Street, 7 reports439 Hereford Street, 7 reports418 Hereford Street, 7 reports519 Hereford Street, 6 reports488 Hereford Street, 6 reports419 Hereford Street, 6 reports398B Hereford Street, 6 reports353 Hereford Street, 6 reports346 Hereford Street, 6 reports614 Hereford Street, 5 reports598 Hereford Street, 5 reports576 Hereford Street, 5 reports574 Hereford Street, 5 reports573 Hereford Street, 5 reports562 Hereford Street, 5 reports546 Hereford Street, 5 reports507 Hereford Street, 5 reports500 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Hereford Street, 3 reports482 Hereford Street, 3 reports476 Hereford Street, 3 reports469 Hereford Street, 3 reports468 Hereford Street, 3 reports452 Hereford Street, 3 reports405 Hereford Street, 3 reports384 Hereford Street, 3 reports366 Hereford Street, 3 reports359 Hereford Street, 3 reports358 Hereford Street, 3 reports354 Hereford Street, 3 reports337 Hereford Street, 3 reports624 Hereford Street, 2 reports618B Hereford Street, 2 reports618A Hereford Street, 2 reports610 Hereford Street, 2 reports602 Hereford Street, 2 reports594 Hereford Street, 2 reports569 Hereford Street, 2 reports560 Hereford Street, 2 reports557 Hereford Street, 2 reports533 Hereford Street, 2 reports529 Hereford Street, 2 reports524 Hereford Street, 2 reports523 Hereford Street, 2 reports520 Hereford Street, 2 reports506 Hereford Street, 2 reports503 Hereford Street, 2 reports490 Hereford Street, 2 reports445 Hereford Street, 2 reports422A Hereford Street, 2 reports415 Hereford Street, 2 reports401 Hereford Street, 2 reports400 Hereford Street, 2 reports399 Hereford Street, 2 reports397 Hereford Street, 2 reports394 Hereford Street, 2 reports389C Hereford Street, 2 reports370 Hereford Street, 2 reports368-370 Hereford Street, 2 reports352 Hereford Street, 2 reports351 Hereford Street, 2 reports350 Hereford Street, 2 reports349 Hereford Street, 2 reports347 Hereford Street, 2 reports630 Hereford Street, 1 report626 Hereford Street, 1 report581 Hereford Street, 1 report580 Hereford Street, 1 report572 Hereford Street, 1 report556 Hereford Street, 1 report542 Hereford Street, 1 report540 Hereford Street, 1 report537 Hereford Street, 1 report536 Hereford Street, 1 report5359 Hereford Street, 1 report517 Hereford Street, 1 report507-509 Hereford Street, 1 report502A Hereford Street, 1 report488-490 Hereford Street, 1 report470 Hereford Street, 1 report459 Hereford Street, 1 report458 Hereford Street, 1 report455A Hereford Street, 1 report451 Hereford Street, 1 report448 Hereford Street, 1 report428-430 Hereford Street, 1 report428 Hereford Street, 1 report415-417 Hereford Street, 1 report407-411 Hereford Street, 1 report398A Hereford Street, 1 report398 Hereford Street, 1 report391 Hereford Street, 1 report389A Hereford Street, 1 report386 Hereford Street, 1 report385 Hereford Street, 1 report373 Hereford Street, 1 report368 Hereford Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hereford Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hereford Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hereford Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hereford Street 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

and the other 117 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 3,604 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Hereford Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Linwood Community Arts Centre set of steps · 65 m away Linwood Community Arts Centre set of steps · 72 m away Linwood Community Arts Centre ramp · 75 m away Linwood Community Arts Centre set of steps · 83 m away Linwood Community Arts Centre set of steps · 87 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hereford Street in 66 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Fitzgerald Avenue & Hereford Street, 37 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoLitter, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hereford Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hereford Street?

1,000 reports at 177 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (655), graffiti & vandalism (190), roads & footpaths (54).

When was Hereford Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 529 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Hereford Street?

Fitzgerald Avenue and Hereford Street, 37 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 1 of them fatal.

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