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Cox Street

36 reports at 17 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.

36 reports17 addresses35 days reported onfrom the air, then27 documents carry the namethe 1682nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Cox Street, 11 reports67 Cox Street, 3 reports7 Cox Street, 2 reports54 Cox Street, 2 reports34 Cox Street, 2 reports21 Cox Street, 2 reports17 Cox Street, 2 reports16 Cox Street, 2 reports14 Cox Street, 2 reports72 Cox Street, 1 report63 Cox Street, 1 report59 Cox Street, 1 report43 Cox Street, 1 report40 Cox Street, 1 report35 Cox Street, 1 report20 Cox Street, 1 report11 Cox Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cox Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cox Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cox 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. 27 on the shelf; the 8 earliest:

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

The named ground

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

Merivale Reserve shelter · 105 m away

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

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoVandalism - General, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cox Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cox Street?

36 reports at 17 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (16), water & drains (5), everything else (5).

When was Cox Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 35 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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