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Buxton Terrace

34 reports at 7 addresses in Saint Martins, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 25 separate days somebody filed something about it.

34 reports7 addresses25 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2085th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Buxton Terrace, 24 reports6 Buxton Terrace, 3 reports8 Buxton Terrace, 2 reports7 Buxton Terrace, 2 reports9A Buxton Terrace, 1 report4–6 Buxton Terrace, 1 report11 Buxton Terrace, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Buxton Terrace from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Buxton Terrace from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Buxton Terrace from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Buxton Terrace from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Buxton Terrace in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Buxton Terrace?

In Saint Martins, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Buxton Terrace?

34 reports at 7 addresses, most often water & drains (16), rubbish & dumping (6), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Buxton Terrace first reported on?

2018, the record covers 25 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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