Epsom Road

171 reports at 66 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 146 separate days somebody filed something about it.

171 reports 66 addresses146 days reported onfrom the air, then 6 documents carry the namethe 454th 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 Epsom Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sockburn.

From the air, then

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

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

Epsom 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

87 Epsom Road, 26 reports
87D Epsom Road, 9 reports
85 Epsom Road, 9 reports
70 Epsom Road, 8 reports
42 Epsom Road, 8 reports
80 Epsom Road, 5 reports
32 Epsom Road, 5 reports
24 Epsom Road, 5 reports
89 Epsom Road, 4 reports
63 Epsom Road, 4 reports
59 Epsom Road, 4 reports
79 Epsom Road, 3 reports
77 Epsom Road, 3 reports
62 Epsom Road, 3 reports
20 Epsom Road, 3 reports
15 Epsom Road, 3 reports
10A Epsom Road, 3 reports
10 Epsom Road, 3 reports
8A Epsom Road, 2 reports
83 Epsom Road, 2 reports
81 Epsom Road, 2 reports
57 Epsom Road, 2 reports
56B Epsom Road, 2 reports
51 Epsom Road, 2 reports
50A Epsom Road, 2 reports
46E Epsom Road, 2 reports
46 Epsom Road, 2 reports
36a Epsom Road, 2 reports
31 Epsom Road, 2 reports
30 Epsom Road, 2 reports
29 Epsom Road, 2 reports
18A Epsom Road, 2 reports
17 Epsom Road, 2 reports
99C Epsom Road, 1 report
99A Epsom Road, 1 report
87-89 Epsom Road, 1 report
78 Epsom Road, 1 report
76-68 Epsom Road, 1 report
75 Epsom Road, 1 report
70A Epsom Road, 1 report
6A Epsom Road, 1 report
67 Epsom Road, 1 report
66A Epsom Road, 1 report
66 Epsom Road, 1 report
65 Epsom Road, 1 report
64 Epsom Road, 1 report
63-71 Epsom Road, 1 report
61 Epsom Road, 1 report
60 Epsom Road, 1 report
56A Epsom Road, 1 report
52A Epsom Road, 1 report
52 Epsom Road, 1 report
50 Epsom Road, 1 report
47A Epsom Road, 1 report
45A Epsom Road, 1 report
45 Epsom Road, 1 report
40 Epsom Road, 1 report
4 Epsom Road, 1 report
34B Epsom Road, 1 report
28 Epsom Road, 1 report

and the other 6 the record names

18 Epsom Road, 1 report
14A Epsom Road, 1 report
14 Epsom Road, 1 report
130 Epsom Road, 1 report
12A Epsom Road, 1 report
1/70 Epsom Road, 1 report

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 48 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 35 reports
Water & drains, 30 reports
Roads & footpaths, 27 reports
Trees & parks, 16 reports
Vehicles & parking, 9 reports
Everything else, 5 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 3 reports
2017, 10 reports
2018, 11 reports
2019, 6 reports
2020, 3 reports
2021, 3 reports
2022, 21 reports
2023, 26 reports
2024, 29 reports
2025, 31 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 6 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Auckland Star, 13 August 1878) · Papers Past, 13 Aug 1878
…outhouse and stable and nice garden lately occupied by mrs lswis either for sale or ease epsom roada seven-roomed cottage with garden and every convenience well situated hepburn-streeta well-built fa…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Observer, 26 August 1916) · Papers Past, 26 Aug 1916
…yers will be invited to express their views a full attendance is desired h frost chairmen epsom road boards…

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Paparua Stream Reserve footbridge · 3 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Epsom Road in 23 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Epsom Road & Main South Road, 58 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.