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Norfolk Street

17 reports at 9 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 12 separate days somebody filed something about it.

17 reports9 addresses12 days reported onfrom the air, then39 documents carry the namethe 3040th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

18 Norfolk Street, 4 reports11 Norfolk Street, 3 reports7 Norfolk Street, 2 reports24 Norfolk Street, 2 reports17A Norfolk Street, 2 reports7B Norfolk Street, 1 report21 Norfolk Street, 1 report14 Norfolk Street, 1 report10A Norfolk Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Norfolk Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Norfolk Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Norfolk Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Norfolk 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. 39 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Norfolk Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Norfolk Street?

17 reports at 9 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (7), water & drains (4), rubbish & dumping (3).

When was Norfolk Street first reported on?

2021, the record covers 12 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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