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Wood Lane

13 reports at 3 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 11 separate days somebody filed something about it.

13 reports3 addresses11 days reported onfrom the air, then18 documents carry the namethe 3144th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Wood Lane, 10 reports7 Wood Lane, 2 reports8 Wood Lane, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wood Lane from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wood Lane from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wood Lane 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. 18 on the shelf; the 1 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wood Lane?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wood Lane?

13 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (10), everything else (2), roads & footpaths (1).

When was Wood Lane first reported on?

2022, the record covers 11 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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