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Woodbank Street

17 reports at 8 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 16 separate days somebody filed something about it.

17 reports8 addresses16 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2653rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

17 Woodbank Street, 9 reports15 Woodbank Street, 2 reports8E Woodbank Street, 1 report8A Woodbank Street, 1 report8 Woodbank Street, 1 report6 Woodbank Street, 1 report5 Woodbank Street, 1 report3–5 Woodbank Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Woodbank Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Woodbank Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Woodbank Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Woodbank Street 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. 2 on the shelf; the 1 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 Woodbank Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Woodbank Street?

17 reports at 8 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (10), water & drains (3), trees & parks (3).

When was Woodbank Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 16 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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