Edgeware Road

292 reports at 91 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 238 separate days somebody filed something about it.

292 reports 91 addresses238 days reported onfrom the air, then 267 documents carry the name 16 businessesthe 240th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Edgeware Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Edgeware Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Edgeware Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Edgeware 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

59 Edgeware Road, 21 reports
88A Edgeware Road, 14 reports
70A Edgeware Road, 12 reports
52 Edgeware Road, 12 reports
57 Edgeware Road, 10 reports
148 Edgeware Road, 9 reports
146D Edgeware Road, 9 reports
76 Edgeware Road, 8 reports
70 Edgeware Road, 7 reports
132 Edgeware Road, 6 reports
127 Edgeware Road, 6 reports
90 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
72B Edgeware Road, 5 reports
45 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
34 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
31 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
24 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
21 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
139 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
122 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
101 Edgeware Road, 5 reports
61 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
5 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
37 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
30 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
146 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
145 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
135 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
109 Edgeware Road, 4 reports
89 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
87 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
71 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
39 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
26 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
22 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
17 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
129 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
107 Edgeware Road, 3 reports
89B Edgeware Road, 2 reports
76C Edgeware Road, 2 reports
74 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
58 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
53 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
49 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
41 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
4 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
38 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
32 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
18 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
134 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
131 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
12 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
108 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
103 Edgeware Road, 2 reports
9 Edgeware Road, 1 report
88b Edgeware Road, 1 report
86-84 Edgeware Road, 1 report
84 Edgeware Road, 1 report
80 Edgeware Road, 1 report
8 Edgeware Road, 1 report

and the other 31 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 132 reports
Roads & footpaths, 53 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 39 reports
Water & drains, 38 reports
Vehicles & parking, 17 reports
Trees & parks, 9 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Noise, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 3 reports
2017, 20 reports
2018, 13 reports
2019, 20 reports
2020, 11 reports
2021, 24 reports
2022, 25 reports
2023, 31 reports
2024, 52 reports
2025, 55 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 267 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 19 January 1861) · Papers Past, 19 Jan 1861
…cot post office london baker henry christchurch 2 beasley mrs bowrer street parade street edgeware road brinker herman kaiapoi brown thomas christchurch crook mr t post office sydney calf miss sarah m…
DRAINAGE BOARD. (Star, 02 April 1878) · Papers Past, 2 Apr 1878
…packe road district sfc albans creek would receive the drain along the north sido of the edgeware road covered in by an 18 inch pipe it would also receive the drain on the st albans lane covered in b…
CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 09 October 1878) · Papers Past, 9 Oct 1878
…ion and a line in continuation thereof to the abberley road thence along the abberley and edgeware roads to the north east corner of rs 243 b thence along the eastern boundary of the latter section to…
EXTENSION OF GAS MAINS. (Star, 14 May 1879) · Papers Past, 14 May 1879
…nnyside asylum 45 90 ferry road east belt to woolston 30 60 caledonian road north belt to edgeware road 14 40 tuam street durham to barbadoes street 17 salisbury street montreal to barbadoes street 17…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 21 July 1879) · Papers Past, 21 Jul 1879
…r again new zealand clothing factory 6283 anted tenders for sinking two artesian wells on edgeware road knightstown apply caledonian hotel 6517 wanted known vacancy for few respectable boarders apply…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 04 September 1879) · Papers Past, 4 Sept 1879
…land olothing factory cashel street ohristohuroh 3819 springfield brewery springfield and edgeware roads sfc albans pitts k co brewers and bottlers our ale and porter from pure malt and hops cannot be…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 09 September 1879) · Papers Past, 9 Sept 1879
…ning wednesday sept 10 7219 by order of the committee springfield brewery springfield and edgeware roads st albans pitts co brewers and bottlers our ale and porter from pure malt and hoj8 cannot be su…
DEATHS. (Star, 07 June 1880) · Papers Past, 7 Jun 1880
…ll louisa third daughter of william and louisa bryant aged threo years bakeb on june 6 at edgeware road st albans christchurch william the bolovod and only child of william and isabella mary baker age…
BOROUGH COUNCIL. (Star, 14 February 1882) · Papers Past, 14 Feb 1882
…berry street be put in proper order and the culvert in barker street repaired repairs to edgeware road and tho roads to the western side of tho borough were required the committee drew attention to t…
Local & General. (Star, 06 March 1882) · Papers Past, 6 Mar 1882
…la��t night a young woman named maria mnalty the newly-married wife of mr william mnalty edgeware road died somewhat suddonly about a quarter past 11 oclock she was seized with a fit about 10 oclock…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 24 August 1882) · Papers Past, 24 Aug 1882
…oottage of five rooms gloucester street west seven-roomed honse and six acres of land on edgeware road several sums of money for investment apply to j t ban land a estate agent valuatob lioensed iian…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 30 August 1882) · Papers Past, 30 Aug 1882
…cottage of five rooms gloucester street west seven-roomed honse and six acres of land on edgeware road several sum�� of money for investment apply to j 1 bill land estatb agent valuatob lioensed land…

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

The businesses on it, 16

Premises whose address in the directory is Edgeware Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 4 more whose address names it.

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.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 5 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 117 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 120 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 121 m away St Albans Community Centre ramp · 127 m away St Albans Community Centre set of steps · 130 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Edgeware Road in 57 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 14 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Edgeware Road & Hills Road, 33 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.