Ensors Road
122 reports at 42 addresses in Opawa, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 114 separate days somebody filed something about it.
122 reports42 addresses114 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 609th street on the roll, by days it took to know
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Ensors Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Opawa.
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
- 29 Ensors Road, 16 reports
- 2 Ensors Road, 13 reports
- 34 Ensors Road, 8 reports
- 87R Ensors Road, 6 reports
- 32 Ensors Road, 6 reports
- 38I Ensors Road, 5 reports
- 38F Ensors Road, 4 reports
- 26 Ensors Road, 4 reports
- 21A Ensors Road, 4 reports
- 38 Ensors Road, 3 reports
- 28 Ensors Road, 3 reports
- 25 Ensors Road, 3 reports
- 17 Ensors Road, 3 reports
- 1 Ensors Road, 3 reports
- 8A Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 87 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 8-2 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 8 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 6 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 4 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 38H Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 35 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 24 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 19 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 18 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 12 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 10 Ensors Road, 2 reports
- 54 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 52 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 48 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 44 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 42-58 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 42-36 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 38K Ensors Road, 1 report
- 36 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 35E Ensors Road, 1 report
- 34-32 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 18B Ensors Road, 1 report
- 16 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 15 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 14 Ensors Road, 1 report
- 12-8 Ensors Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 65 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 23 reports
- Water & drains, 12 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 9 reports
- Trees & parks, 7 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 4 reports
- Everything else, 1 report
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 2 reports
- 2017, 9 reports
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 5 reports
- 2020, 11 reports
- 2021, 5 reports
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 11 reports
- 2024, 30 reports
- 2025, 19 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 14 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 02 January 1885)
· Papers Past,
…nham near gasworks road no interest certificate of title free of charge ferry road corner ensors road 85 perches tfltttlia aqgy ensor road three seci ons from 10c terms easy peninsula biocks of 100 to…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 30 December 1898)
· Papers Past,
…rmen 98 biougbam st do mrs mcgregor smith road do mrs patterson le bon bay do mrs latimer ensors road opawa do mrs shirley 34 gladstone st sydenham do miss pounci ashley back do mrs berry 256 st asaph…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 20 July 1900)
· Papers Past,
…llsteed 54 armieh street 126 mrs g e vstwick ferry road ashbourne 125 mrs m a whittington ensors road opawa 123 t mrs john castle duvauchelle bay 122 miss t j mullins riccarton 122 mrs curke highland…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 31 July 1900)
· Papers Past,
…illsteed 54 armagh street 126 mra g eaatwick ferry road ashbourne 125 mrs m a whittington ensors road opawa 123 mrs john castle duvauchellea bay 122 miss t j mullins riccarton 122 mra clarke highland…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 28 April 1909)
· Papers Past,
…ketable properties adver tised in this column easy terms arranged woolston onlt iio ejlcs ensors road high position 3 splen did building sites 64 liaks frontage by 250 links deep easy terms arranged 7…
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 29 July 1941)
· Papers Past,
…care mrs d i souter williams road orini daughter bagley augustine leo pte mr a bagley 166 ensors road christchurch f buchanan william twaddle frickleton pte mrs m e buchanan 441 selwyn street christch…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 14 April 1944)
· Papers Past,
…c gur mrs m r ashby 227 taniakl drive auckland in aysox thomas it pte airs m j aysou llil ensors road chrlstchurch m blake lan c pte mrs g h blake tangowalilne m biuslaxe kenneth t pte mrs c brislane…
- SAFE AGAIN (Evening Post, 30 April 1945)
· Papers Past,
…noel t fte mr f at ley hine street new plymouth f bagley augustine l pte mr a bagley uiti ensors road christchurch f batchelor noel pte mrs a a batchelor 110 wnimea street nelson m bevan jolin v lcpl…
- Fire at Gough, Gough and Hamer
· Canterbury Stories,
Fire damage to the manufacturing section of Gough, Gough and Hamer Limited, Ensors Road, Opawa. The fire was believed to have been started by a dropped cigarette or deliberately by a bur…
- In Bankruptcy
· New Zealand Gazette,
…of 35 Browning Street, Christchurch. Stoop, Robert Edwin, beneficiary, formerly of 14/182 Ensors Road, now of Kirk Road, Templeton, Christchurch. Paterson, Julie Anne, student, formerly of Ireland and…
- In Bankruptcy
· New Zealand Gazette,
…i, Auckland, at 2.35 p.m.17 December 2001Cook, Gayleen Hazel, beneficiary, of Flat 1, 155 Ensors Road, Christchurch, at 10.00 a.m.Denize, Johno Peter, of 163 Seatoun Heights Road, Seatoun, Wellington,…
- In Bankruptcy
· New Zealand Gazette,
…her, of 60A Tipahi Street, Nelson, at 10.25 a.m.Walker, Melissa Tracey, homemaker, of 143 Ensors Road, Opawa, Christchurch, at 11.25 a.m.23 May 2006Balasubramaniam, Ramani, bakery manager, and Balasub…
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Ensors Road in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Ensors Road & Ferry Road, 58 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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.
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 26 September 1882) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 30 December 1884) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 31 December 1884) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 06 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 07 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 10 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 21 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 24 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 26 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 28 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 29 January 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 05 February 1885) · Star,
- POLICE COMMISSION. (Star, 28 April 1898) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Ellesmere Guardian, 10 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 13 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 17 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 20 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- MAGISTERIAL. (Star, 25 April 1900) · Star,
- WINNER OF £2000 (Evening Post, 21 March 1932) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 32 Ensors Rd,
- Water Leak, 15 Ensors Road,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 87R Ensors Road,
- Bus Shelter Issue, 24 Ensors Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 87R Ensors Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1 Ensors Road,
- Street Light Outage, 38I Ensors Road,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 25 Ensors Road,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 25 Ensors Road,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 21A Ensors Road,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 25 Ensors Road,
- Water Leak, 10 Ensors Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 18 Ensors Rd,
- Traffic Signals, 87R Ensors Road,
- Street Light Outage, 21A Ensors Rd,
Questions, answered briefly
Where is Ensors Road?
In Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand.
What gets reported on Ensors Road?
122 reports at 42 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (65), roads & footpaths (23), water & drains (12).
When was Ensors Road first reported on?
2016, the record covers 114 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
What is the busiest corner on Ensors Road?
Ensors Road and Ferry Road, 58 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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