Springfield Road

390 reports at 140 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 301 separate days somebody filed something about it.

390 reports 140 addresses301 days reported on2 on the register from the air, then 457 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 154th 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 Springfield 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

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

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

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

Springfield 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

and the other 80 the record names

What got reported

Water & drains, 119 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 90 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 87 reports
Roads & footpaths, 61 reports
Trees & parks, 16 reports
Vehicles & parking, 15 reports
Everything else, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 14 reports
2017, 8 reports
2018, 10 reports
2019, 26 reports
2020, 20 reports
2021, 30 reports
2022, 43 reports
2023, 79 reports
2024, 62 reports
2025, 63 reports

On the register

Dwelling and Setting, 102D Springfield Road
Te Whatu Manawa Maoritanga O Rehua and Setting, 79 Springfield Road

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. 457 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 10 February 1858) · Papers Past, 10 Feb 1858
…rees john papanui farmer recce edward cashel street christchurch ironmonger rees william springfield road carter reed charles colombo street christchurch gentleman reeves james manchester street chri…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 10 February 1858) · Papers Past, 10 Feb 1858
…rch butcher young charles kaiapoi sawyer young james heathcote labourer younghusband john springfield road printer johjt hall e m william guise beittan jp all objections to the above list will be hear…
Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 21 April 1860) · Papers Past, 21 Apr 1860
…section 46 town clark charles wheresteadlodge lincoln t c v t aoo an joynt thomas ingham springfield road leasehold tot-93 town reserves antigua street south aud road 1 freehold lichfield street part…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 25 April 1860) · Papers Past, 25 Apr 1860
…106t section 46 town clark charles wherestead lodge lincoln qqjp qqft joynt thomas ingham springfield road leasehold lot 93 town reserves antigua street south and road i veeh l a l itfi t vonoseomsssm…
JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860) · Papers Past, 19 May 1860
…street lyttelton bookbinder goss james durham street christchurch carpenter gould george springfield road christchurch merchant graham douglas riccarton farm bailiff graham thomas college land lyttel…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 09 June 1860) · Papers Past, 9 Jun 1860
…d laborer joynt nathaniel springfield1 road chrutchnrch writing clerk joynt thomas ingram springfield road christ church writing clerk judd william south christchurch road laborer judge william luke t…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 09 June 1860) · Papers Past, 9 Jun 1860
…st albans gardeneil hipsworthj john chester street christchurch bricklayer hinton william springfield road christchurch laborer hislop william antigua street christchurch gardener hitch robert jacob c…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 09 June 1860) · Papers Past, 9 Jun 1860
…thiff henry theodore woodend sawyer gough arthur church bush kaiapoi bushman gould george springfield road christchurch merchant graham douglas eiccarton bailiff graham george north road kaiapoi carpe…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 09 June 1860) · Papers Past, 9 Jun 1860
…hilip port albert farmer fletcher samuel antigua street christchurch laborer flint george springfield road christchurch carpenter flint uames armagh street christchurch carpenter flint james lower avo…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 13 June 1860) · Papers Past, 13 Jun 1860
…john riccarton gentleman mathias james vincent north road kaiapoi farmer matthews thomas springfield road christchurch farmer matthews thomas papanui road laborer matthews william lower lincoln road…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 16 April 1862) · Papers Past, 16 Apr 1862
…n goldney george st albans freehold st albans red brick house rowland davis gordon george springfield road st alban household house and garden springfield road st albans r j s harman grisboook henry b…
LIST OF CLAMANTS TO BE PLACED ON THE ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHEVIOT. (Lyttelton Times, 19 April 1862) · Papers Past, 19 Apr 1862
…n goldney george st albans freehold st albans red brick house rowland davis gordon george springfield road st alban household house and garden springfield road st albans e j s harman grisboook henry b…

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

St Albans Medical CentreDoctors & clinics · 250 Springfield Road, St Albans

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 · 22 m away Abberley Park ramp · 136 m away Abberley Park ramp · 137 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Springfield Road in 39 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Edgeware Road & Springfield Road, 25 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.