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Mackworth Street

146 reports at 4 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 125 separate days somebody filed something about it.

146 reports4 addresses125 days reported onfrom the air, then33 documents carry the namethe 551st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

120 Mackworth Street, 68 reports119 Mackworth Street, 43 reports118 Mackworth Street, 34 reports110 Mackworth Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mackworth Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mackworth Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mackworth 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. 33 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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 Mackworth Street?

In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mackworth Street?

146 reports at 4 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (62), trees & parks (47), rubbish & dumping (20).

When was Mackworth Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 125 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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