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Cheltenham Street

23 reports at 13 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 23 separate days somebody filed something about it.

23 reports13 addresses23 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 2170th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

19 Cheltenham Street, 4 reports10 Cheltenham Street, 4 reports22 Cheltenham Street, 3 reports20 Cheltenham Street, 2 reports15 Cheltenham Street, 2 reports8 Cheltenham Street, 1 report6 Cheltenham Street, 1 report5–19 Cheltenham Street, 1 report2E Cheltenham Street, 1 report2D Cheltenham Street, 1 report2C Cheltenham Street, 1 report2 Cheltenham Street, 1 report16 Cheltenham Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cheltenham Street in 2 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 Cheltenham Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cheltenham Street?

23 reports at 13 addresses, most often water & drains (12), rubbish & dumping (5), roads & footpaths (3).

When was Cheltenham Street first reported on?

2020, the record covers 23 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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