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Cumberland Street

16 reports at 10 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

16 reports10 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then178 documents carry the namethe 2734th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

11 Cumberland Street, 4 reports21 Cumberland Street, 2 reports19B Cumberland Street, 2 reports19 Cumberland Street, 2 reports9 Cumberland Street, 1 report6 Cumberland Street, 1 report3 Cumberland Street, 1 report25 Cumberland Street, 1 report19A Cumberland Street, 1 report1 Cumberland Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cumberland Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cumberland Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cumberland 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. 178 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cumberland Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cumberland Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cumberland Street?

16 reports at 10 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (5), graffiti & vandalism (5), vehicles & parking (3).

When was Cumberland Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 15 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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