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Rugby Street

220 reports at 57 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 191 separate days somebody filed something about it.

220 reports57 addresses191 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then171 documents carry the namethe 322nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

39 Rugby Street, 73 reports34 Rugby Street, 20 reports27 Rugby Street, 16 reports142 Rugby Street, 9 reports1 Rugby Street, 9 reports39-43 Rugby Street, 5 reports65A Rugby Street, 4 reports45 Rugby Street, 4 reports41 Rugby Street, 4 reports22 Rugby Street, 4 reports83 Rugby Street, 3 reports42 Rugby Street, 3 reports36 Rugby Street, 3 reports26 Rugby Street, 3 reports144 Rugby Street, 3 reports94 Rugby Street, 2 reports89 Rugby Street, 2 reports80 Rugby Street, 2 reports73 Rugby Street, 2 reports69 Rugby Street, 2 reports61 Rugby Street, 2 reports58 Rugby Street, 2 reports57 Rugby Street, 2 reports50 Rugby Street, 2 reports24 Rugby Street, 2 reports2 Rugby Street, 2 reports15 Rugby Street, 2 reports141A Rugby Street, 2 reports137 Rugby Street, 2 reports122 Rugby Street, 2 reports93 Rugby Street, 1 report92 Rugby Street, 1 report91 Rugby Street, 1 report90 Rugby Street, 1 report87 Rugby Street, 1 report84 Rugby Street, 1 report7 Rugby Street, 1 report65 Rugby Street, 1 report61A Rugby Street, 1 report55 Rugby Street, 1 report53 Rugby Street, 1 report52 Rugby Street, 1 report3 Rugby Street, 1 report20A Rugby Street, 1 report16 Rugby Street, 1 report133B Rugby Street, 1 report130 Rugby Street, 1 report126 Rugby Street, 1 report125D Rugby Street, 1 report124 Rugby Street, 1 report11A Rugby Street, 1 report11 Rugby Street, 1 report107 Rugby Street, 1 report106 Rugby Street, 1 report104A Rugby Street, 1 report10 Rugby Street, 1 report1/26 Rugby Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting, Long Cottage: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Rugby Street, 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

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

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. 171 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

Saint Albans Creek stream · 74 m away Merivale Reserve set of steps · 6 m away Merivale Reserve shelter · 31 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rugby Street in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Pavement - Damaged, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rugby Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rugby Street?

220 reports at 57 addresses, most often trees & parks (80), roads & footpaths (42), water & drains (29).

When was Rugby Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 191 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Rugby Street?

Dwelling and Setting, Long Cottage.

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