Cobham Street

222 reports at 75 addresses in Spreydon, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 191 separate days somebody filed something about it.

222 reports 75 addresses191 days reported onfrom the air, then 19 documents carry the namethe 324th 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 Cobham Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Spreydon.

From the air, then

Cobham Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Cobham Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Cobham Street 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

29 Cobham Street, 21 reports
69 Cobham Street, 13 reports
31 Cobham Street, 8 reports
12 Cobham Street, 8 reports
25 Cobham Street, 7 reports
66 Cobham Street, 6 reports
49 Cobham Street, 6 reports
26 Cobham Street, 6 reports
16 Cobham Street, 6 reports
8 Cobham Street, 5 reports
23 Cobham Street, 5 reports
15B Cobham Street, 5 reports
15 Cobham Street, 5 reports
59 Cobham Street, 4 reports
55 Cobham Street, 4 reports
2 Cobham Street, 4 reports
138 Cobham Street, 4 reports
8A Cobham Street, 3 reports
71 Cobham Street, 3 reports
61 Cobham Street, 3 reports
54 Cobham Street, 3 reports
52 Cobham Street, 3 reports
51 Cobham Street, 3 reports
32 Cobham Street, 3 reports
30 Cobham Street, 3 reports
27 Cobham Street, 3 reports
21 Cobham Street, 3 reports
20 Cobham Street, 3 reports
19 Cobham Street, 3 reports
128 Cobham Street, 3 reports
117 Cobham Street, 3 reports
104 Cobham Street, 3 reports
90 Cobham Street, 2 reports
81 Cobham Street, 2 reports
79 Cobham Street, 2 reports
77 Cobham Street, 2 reports
72 Cobham Street, 2 reports
7 Cobham Street, 2 reports
62 Cobham Street, 2 reports
40-22 Cobham Street, 2 reports
22 Cobham Street, 2 reports
18 Cobham Street, 2 reports
130 Cobham Street, 2 reports
128A Cobham Street, 2 reports
121 Cobham Street, 2 reports
119 Cobham Street, 2 reports
112 Cobham Street, 2 reports
111 Cobham Street, 2 reports
110 Cobham Street, 2 reports
94A Cobham Street, 1 report
94 Cobham Street, 1 report
93 Cobham Street, 1 report
9 Cobham Street, 1 report
85 Cobham Street, 1 report
83 Cobham Street, 1 report
80A Cobham Street, 1 report
80 Cobham Street, 1 report
78 Cobham Street, 1 report
75 Cobham Street, 1 report
74 Cobham Street, 1 report

and the other 15 the record names

What got reported

Water & drains, 104 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 65 reports
Roads & footpaths, 31 reports
Trees & parks, 9 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 7 reports
Vehicles & parking, 6 reports

Year by year

2016, 6 reports
2017, 4 reports
2018, 8 reports
2019, 34 reports
2020, 6 reports
2021, 12 reports
2022, 27 reports
2023, 26 reports
2024, 38 reports
2025, 37 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 19 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 15 October 1904) · Papers Past, 15 Oct 1904
…n jl trotting course six loose-boxes man room harness-room and paddocking apply d stevens cobham street off wilderness road 7410 special iist of properties sumner redcliffs and monck bay if you want t…
Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 04 November 1905) · Papers Past, 4 Nov 1905
…et e 5727 anted to sell draught mare and spring dray horse also good butter cow d stevens cobham street off wil derness road spreydon 5726 w anted a woman for cleaning apply t armstrong and co market…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 16 December 1905) · Papers Past, 16 Dec 1905
…way tea rooms 7496 wanted sell cheap two tanks one galvanised one painted apply d stevens cobham street off wilderness road spreydon v wanted known that moller and young 82 cathedral square are the i…
Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 13 July 1907) · Papers Past, 13 Jul 1907
…scul lery copper bathroom venetian blinds two bay windows j-acre land 9a apply r jsutt-al cobham strct off wilderness road spreydon 2545 boot trade wanted machinists fitters and learners also boys cro…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 25 April 1908) · Papers Past, 25 Apr 1908
…r ivy verandah 3 acres 8 loose-boxes har ness room feed room man room trap shed d stevens cobham street off wilder ness road spreydon 4071 jtt7anted sell pickling onions ld lb ivy swedes and carrots 2…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 13 June 1908) · Papers Past, 13 Jun 1908
…ea feedroom trapshed cow bates pig tty 2 acres subdivided into small txiddoclcs i stevens cobham street off wilderness itoad spreydon 7117 rrftanted situation lor first-class v station cook wanted exp…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 17 October 1908) · Papers Past, 17 Oct 1908
…l used k-dsomely carved bedrock prices 91 lr jbigh street 3 xitanted tolet houseandlic7e7 cobham street and barington road spreydon henry aili-son harman and stevens 11220 hereford street 6420 wanted…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 28 November 1908) · Papers Past, 28 Nov 1908
…y bathroom scullery copper tubs sink verandah trap-shed feed house 2 looe-boxes d stevens cobham street off w t ilderness road spreydon 78g5 ue3sfotspletwtthle profits suit two ladies j meagher l-l ca…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 08 September 1909) · Papers Past, 8 Sept 1909
…eptional bargain ur gent 52 worcester street city smart boy must be used to horses f batt cobham street spreydon 9987 superfluous hal moles blemishes birthmarks effectually removed by electrolysis mr…
MY LUCKY STAR" (Evening Post, 28 August 1934) · Papers Past, 28 Aug 1934
…s 16 dublin street wanganui a 69773 tony christchurch c 45351 needed badly care d pugh 78 cobham street spreydon a 50073 two duds methven 878887 cohen and kelly gates ltd willis street wellington a 59…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 July 1941) · Papers Past, 2 Jul 1941
…clean 8 lewis street gladstone inver cargill m mcpherson hector pte mrs j e mc pherson 25 cobham street spreydon christchurch m macpherschst lan hamilton pte mr j a macpherson 324 thames highway oamar…
SECOND N.Z.E.F. (Evening Post, 29 October 1941) · Papers Past, 29 Oct 1941
…ster 16 dyers pass road cashmere chrlstchuch m mcpheeson hector pte mrs j e mc pherson 25 cobham street spreydon christchurch m mctavish alexander w d pte mrs m mctavlsh co mrs hunter golf road hereta…

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The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 39 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cobham Street in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.