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Repton Street

21 reports at 12 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

21 reports12 addresses18 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 2486th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

41 Repton Street, 4 reports1 Repton Street, 4 reports47 Repton Street, 2 reports40 Repton Street, 2 reports3 Repton Street, 2 reports6 Repton Street, 1 report37 Repton Street, 1 report33 Repton Street, 1 report32 Repton Street, 1 report30 Repton Street, 1 report28 Repton Street, 1 report22 Repton Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Repton Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Repton Street?

21 reports at 12 addresses, most often water & drains (6), roads & footpaths (5), everything else (3).

When was Repton Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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