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Oxley Avenue

97 reports at 30 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 91 separate days somebody filed something about it.

97 reports30 addresses91 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 768th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

58 Oxley Avenue, 15 reports57 Oxley Avenue, 10 reports15 Oxley Avenue, 8 reports2 Oxley Avenue, 7 reports27 Oxley Avenue, 5 reports52 Oxley Avenue, 4 reports48 Oxley Avenue, 4 reports41A Oxley Avenue, 4 reports16 Oxley Avenue, 4 reports11 Oxley Avenue, 4 reports53 Oxley Avenue, 3 reports49 Oxley Avenue, 3 reports39 Oxley Avenue, 3 reports9 Oxley Avenue, 2 reports60 Oxley Avenue, 2 reports51 Oxley Avenue, 2 reports41B Oxley Avenue, 2 reports41 Oxley Avenue, 2 reports33 Oxley Avenue, 2 reports56 Oxley Avenue, 1 report55 Oxley Avenue, 1 report54 Oxley Avenue, 1 report48A Oxley Avenue, 1 report47 Oxley Avenue, 1 report43 Oxley Avenue, 1 report35A Oxley Avenue, 1 report28 Oxley Avenue, 1 report24 Oxley Avenue, 1 report20 Oxley Avenue, 1 report11A Oxley Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Oxley Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Oxley Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Oxley Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Oxley Avenue 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.

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 Oxley Avenue in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Oxley Avenue?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Oxley Avenue?

97 reports at 30 addresses, most often water & drains (28), roads & footpaths (21), vehicles & parking (15).

When was Oxley Avenue first reported on?

2016, the record covers 91 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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