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Holmwood Road

48 reports at 27 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 42 separate days somebody filed something about it.

48 reports27 addresses42 days reported onfrom the air, then22 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 1483rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

51 Holmwood Road, 7 reports54 Holmwood Road, 6 reports6 Holmwood Road, 2 reports45 Holmwood Road, 2 reports44 Holmwood Road, 2 reports41 Holmwood Road, 2 reports32 Holmwood Road, 2 reports26 Holmwood Road, 2 reports23 Holmwood Road, 2 reports21 Holmwood Road, 2 reports14 Holmwood Road, 2 reports13 Holmwood Road, 2 reports9 Holmwood Road, 1 report7 Holmwood Road, 1 report60 Holmwood Road, 1 report51A Holmwood Road, 1 report43 Holmwood Road, 1 report39 Holmwood Road, 1 report38 Holmwood Road, 1 report37 Holmwood Road, 1 report34 Holmwood Road, 1 report33 Holmwood Road, 1 report30 Holmwood Road, 1 report25 Holmwood Road, 1 report24 Holmwood Road, 1 report17 Holmwood Road, 1 report10 Holmwood Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 22 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Holmwood 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; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Old Carlton Mill water race drain · 9 m away Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 79 m away Hampton Island island · 271 m away Mona Vale set of steps · 99 m away unnamed jetty · 111 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Holmwood Road in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Holmwood Road?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Holmwood Road?

48 reports at 27 addresses, most often water & drains (14), graffiti & vandalism (12), roads & footpaths (11).

When was Holmwood Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 42 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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