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Hewitts Road

77 reports at 31 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 60 separate days somebody filed something about it.

77 reports31 addresses60 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then11 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1114th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

54 Hewitts Road, 9 reports80 Hewitts Road, 8 reports29 Hewitts Road, 8 reports20C Hewitts Road, 7 reports74 Hewitts Road, 4 reports17 Hewitts Road, 4 reports12A Hewitts Road, 4 reports72A Hewitts Road, 3 reports16 Hewitts Road, 3 reports15 Hewitts Road, 3 reports59Q Hewitts Road, 2 reports59 Hewitts Road, 2 reports24 Hewitts Road, 2 reports9 Hewitts Road, 1 report76 Hewitts Road, 1 report72 Hewitts Road, 1 report70 Hewitts Road, 1 report64 Hewitts Road, 1 report58 Hewitts Road, 1 report56 Hewitts Road, 1 report49 Hewitts Road, 1 report40 Hewitts Road, 1 report39 Hewitts Road, 1 report32a Hewitts Road, 1 report32B Hewitts Road, 1 report21 Hewitts Road, 1 report19 Hewitts Road, 1 report14 Hewitts Road, 1 report12 Hewitts Road, 1 report11 Hewitts Road, 1 report1 Hewitts Road, 1 reportFormer Dwelling and Setting, Te Koroaha: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Hewitts Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Merivale.

From the air, then

Hewitts Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hewitts Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hewitts Road 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

On the register

On foot, The houses the avenues kept walks this street.

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 →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Hewitts Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; 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 Hewitts Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hewitts Road?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hewitts Road?

77 reports at 31 addresses, most often water & drains (36), roads & footpaths (23), trees & parks (9).

When was Hewitts Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 60 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Hewitts Road?

Former Dwelling and Setting, Te Koroaha.

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