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Browns Road

80 reports at 34 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 69 separate days somebody filed something about it.

80 reports34 addresses69 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then15 documents carry the namethe 982nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

52 Browns Road, 12 reports36 Browns Road, 7 reports10 Browns Road, 6 reports75 Browns Road, 5 reports20 Browns Road, 5 reports1 Browns Road, 5 reports2 Browns Road, 4 reports12 Browns Road, 4 reports6 Browns Road, 3 reports42 Browns Road, 3 reports48 Browns Road, 2 reports26 Browns Road, 2 reports90 Browns Road, 1 report83C Browns Road, 1 report81A Browns Road, 1 report69 Browns Road, 1 report68 Browns Road, 1 report65 Browns Road, 1 report64 Browns Road, 1 report60 Browns Road, 1 report57 Browns Road, 1 report55 Browns Road, 1 report49A Browns Road, 1 report49 Browns Road, 1 report45 Browns Road, 1 report40 Browns Road, 1 report4 Browns Road, 1 report3 Browns Road, 1 report24 Browns Road, 1 report22D Browns Road, 1 report22B Browns Road, 1 report17 Browns Road, 1 report15 Browns Road, 1 report11 Browns Road, 1 reportDwelling and Setting, Chippenham Lodge: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Browns Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Saint Albans.

From the air, then

Browns Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Browns Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Browns Road 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

On the register

On foot, The old north road walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 15 on the shelf; the 12 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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Browns Road in 11 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Browns Road?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Browns Road?

80 reports at 34 addresses, most often water & drains (34), roads & footpaths (26), vehicles & parking (6).

When was Browns Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 69 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Browns Road?

Dwelling and Setting, Chippenham Lodge.

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