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Bishop Street

160 reports at 57 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 142 separate days somebody filed something about it.

160 reports57 addresses142 days reported onfrom the air, then46 documents carry the namethe 477th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

48 Bishop Street, 30 reports37 Bishop Street, 10 reports58 Bishop Street, 8 reports123 Bishop Street, 8 reports6 Bishop Street, 6 reports1 Bishop Street, 6 reports9 Bishop Street, 5 reports88 Bishop Street, 5 reports80 Bishop Street, 4 reports8 Bishop Street, 4 reports45 Bishop Street, 4 reports17 Bishop Street, 4 reports130 Bishop Street, 4 reports106 Bishop Street, 4 reports82 Bishop Street, 3 reports105 Bishop Street, 3 reports79A Bishop Street, 2 reports77 Bishop Street, 2 reports63 Bishop Street, 2 reports60 Bishop Street, 2 reports40 Bishop Street, 2 reports35 Bishop Street, 2 reports25 Bishop Street, 2 reports23 Bishop Street, 2 reports126 Bishop Street, 2 reports11 Bishop Street, 2 reports10 Bishop Street, 2 reports99 Bishop Street, 1 report98 Bishop Street, 1 report96 Bishop Street, 1 report95 Bishop Street, 1 report83 Bishop Street, 1 report77A Bishop Street, 1 report72C Bishop Street, 1 report72 Bishop Street, 1 report70 Bishop Street, 1 report69 Bishop Street, 1 report64 Bishop Street, 1 report56 Bishop Street, 1 report55 Bishop Street, 1 report49 Bishop Street, 1 report32C Bishop Street, 1 report32A Bishop Street, 1 report32 Bishop Street, 1 report26 Bishop Street, 1 report19 Bishop Street, 1 report18 Bishop Street, 1 report142 Bishop Street, 1 report14 Bishop Street, 1 report132 Bishop Street, 1 report131 Bishop Street, 1 report129 Bishop Street, 1 report125 Bishop Street, 1 report122 Bishop Street, 1 report112 Bishop Street, 1 report111 Bishop Street, 1 report109 Bishop Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Bishop Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bishop Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bishop Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bishop 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. 46 on the shelf; the 6 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 open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 5 m away

As it was reported

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bishop Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bishop Street?

160 reports at 57 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (45), water & drains (40), rubbish & dumping (34).

When was Bishop Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 142 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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