Exeter Street
9 reports at 6 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2020, the latest 2025. 9 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Exeter Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Merivale.
From the air, then
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
- 17 Exeter Street, 3 reports
- 22 Exeter Street, 2 reports
- 4 Exeter Street, 1 report
- 14 Exeter Street, 1 report
- 11–17 Exeter Street, 1 report
- 11 Exeter Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Trees & parks, 3 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 4 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 92 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 01 November 1851)
· Papers Past,
…th of november at one oclock precisely the following freehold land viz town section no 82 exeter street this section will be sold in 4 plots on three of which substantial houses are erected the same b…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 07 August 1852)
· Papers Past,
…63 171 in dublin street nos 48 49 95 113 115 116 in winchester street nos 50 51 67 68 in exeter street nos 85 868990130 131132 in ripon street no 137 in st david street no 168 in the market place nos…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852)
· Papers Past,
in exeter street nos 85 86 89 90 130 31 13 2 in ripon street no 137 in st david street no 168 in the market place…
- Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852)
· Papers Past,
…edwin heathcote ferry labourer pearson joseph tuam st christch stockholder pearson samuel exeter st lyttelton carpenter perceval spencer papanui road gentleman perceval charles river avon gentleman pe…
- Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852)
· Papers Past,
…street lyttelton surgeon mcclutchy thomas oxford st lyttelton carpenter mccormick william exeter street lyttelton stockman mcgillioray john riccarton gardener mclaughlin john quail island labourer mcq…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 21 August 1852)
· Papers Past,
in exeter street nos 85 86 89 90 tn 31 132 wu in bipon street no 137 in st david street no 168 in the market plac…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 28 August 1852)
· Papers Past,
in exeter street nos 85 86 89 90 130 31 132 in ripon street no 137 in st david street no 168 in the market place…
- SHIPPING NEWS. (Lyttelton Times, 23 April 1853)
· Papers Past,
…llington 16th aprilflour from 28s to 325 per 100 lbs birthon baturday the 16th instant in exeter street lyttelton mrs s pearson of a daughter mabeied on wednesday last at the new church lyttelton by t…
- ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE TOWN OF LYTTELTON. (Lyttelton Times, 09 July 1853)
· Papers Past,
…dland henry john cryer moses cummins william dampier christopher edward winchester street exeter street st david street lyttelton london street dublin street lyttelton london street canterbury street…
- ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853)
· Papers Past,
…f the clear annual value of 5 freeholder rural section no 302 householder and leaseholder exeter street freehold house above the annual value of five pounds part of rural section no 252 a householder…
- JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 22 October 1853)
· Papers Past,
…abourer ward edward christchchurch labourer ward thomas papanui road labourer ward crosby exeter street lyttelton stock owner warmell samuel riecarton labourer washboume henry riecarton farmer watson…
- ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE TOWN OF LYTTELTON. (Lyttelton Times, 22 July 1854)
· Papers Past,
…robert bowler william bowley james briant william brittan william guise winchester street exeter street ly ttelton st david street lyttelton london street dublin street lyttelton lyt r telton london s…
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 Exeter Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Roads - General, 11–17 Exeter St,
- Damaged Road, 4 Exeter St,
- Damaged Asset – CCC contractor, 22 Exeter St,
- Hazard, vehicle, 14 Exeter Street,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 17 Exeter Street,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Exeter Street,
- Park - General Request, 17 Exeter Street,
- Parks, 17 Exeter Street,
- Wastewater/Stormwater, 22 Exeter Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.
9 reports at 6 addresses, most often trees & parks (3), vehicles & parking (2), roads & footpaths (2).
2020, the record covers 9 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
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