Strowan Road
4 reports at 1 address in Merivale, the first in 2021, the latest 2023. 4 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 Strowan Road, 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
- 12A Strowan Road, 4 reports
What got reported
- Trees & parks, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2021, 2 reports
- 2022, 1 report
- 2023, 1 report
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 26 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 20 April 1893)
· Papers Past,
…an to be seen at office block i contains 2 acres 30 perches has a frontage of 5 chains to strowan road nnd 6 chains to plynlimon road j or in sections about j quarter-acre 1 block ll contains 1 acre 9…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 22 April 1893)
· Papers Past,
…seen at office block icontains1 contains 2 acres 30 perches has a frontage of 5 chains to strowan road and 6 chains to plynlimon road or in sections about quarter-acre block ll contains 1 acre 9 perch…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 25 April 1893)
· Papers Past,
…seen at oflice block icontains1 contains 2 acres 30 perches has a frontage of 5 chains to strowan road and g chains to plynlimon road 5 or in sections about quarter-acre block ll contains 1 acre 9 per…
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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 Strowan Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Normans Road & Strowan Road, 32 crashes pinned to the pairing.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.
4 reports at 1 address, most often trees & parks (2), water & drains (1), graffiti & vandalism (1).
2021, the record covers 4 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2023.
Normans Road and Strowan Road, 32 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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