Selwyn Street

338 reports at 98 addresses in Spreydon, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 268 separate days somebody filed something about it.

338 reports 98 addresses268 days reported onfrom the air, then 654 documents carry the name 5 businessesthe 191st 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 Selwyn Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Spreydon.

From the air, then

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

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

Selwyn 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

318 Selwyn Street, 20 reports
288A Selwyn Street, 17 reports
303 Selwyn Street, 15 reports
262 Selwyn Street, 13 reports
304 Selwyn Street, 10 reports
320 Selwyn Street, 9 reports
204 Selwyn Street, 9 reports
294 Selwyn Street, 8 reports
185 Selwyn Street, 8 reports
177 Selwyn Street, 8 reports
289 Selwyn Street, 7 reports
201 Selwyn Street, 7 reports
274 Selwyn Street, 6 reports
295 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
287 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
280 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
271 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
258A Selwyn Street, 5 reports
258 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
243 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
227 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
217 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
203 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
196 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
186A Selwyn Street, 5 reports
179 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
316 Selwyn Street, 4 reports
286A Selwyn Street, 4 reports
255 Selwyn Street, 4 reports
239 Selwyn Street, 4 reports
228 Selwyn Street, 4 reports
215 Selwyn Street, 4 reports
179A Selwyn Street, 4 reports
178 Selwyn Street, 4 reports
176A Selwyn Street, 4 reports
314 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
308 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
306 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
305A Selwyn Street, 3 reports
296 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
290 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
275 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
266 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
252 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
213 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
194 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
193 Selwyn Street, 3 reports
316A Selwyn Street, 2 reports
309 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
301 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
284 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
283 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
282 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
265 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
248 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
240 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
233 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
203A Selwyn Street, 2 reports
200 Selwyn Street, 2 reports
191 Selwyn Street, 2 reports

and the other 38 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 127 reports
Roads & footpaths, 74 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 66 reports
Water & drains, 41 reports
Trees & parks, 17 reports
Everything else, 9 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 15 reports
2017, 14 reports
2018, 13 reports
2019, 18 reports
2020, 11 reports
2021, 21 reports
2022, 44 reports
2023, 62 reports
2024, 53 reports
2025, 47 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 654 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 31 March 1855) · Papers Past, 31 Mar 1855
…an henry oxford district laborer baten duncan nearchristchurcb laborer batterall jonathan selwyn station stockman baxter john north of the waimakariri laborer baxter a kaiapoi carpenter baxter alexand…
JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 04 April 1855) · Papers Past, 4 Apr 1855
…tt john gollan bay laborer phillpott isaac william papanui laborer pickering william thos selwyn station laborer piper thomas home bush station bricklayer piper thomas pigeon bay sawyer pitt william g…
Addington Cemetery plan · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1858
…t right hand row showing plots 1680-1683 among others, is closest row running parallel to Selwyn Street. Cemetery plans…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 25 April 1860) · Papers Past, 25 Apr 1860
…t part section 66 j two houses chisnall george taylor colombo street landholder corner of selwyn street and lower lincoln road freehold tuam street christchurch sections 1065 and 106t section 46 town…
RETURNED LETTERS (Lyttelton Times, 13 October 1860) · Papers Past, 13 Oct 1860
…treet upper kennington lane london sprott mark esq lyttelton stace mr king milton station selwyn stead israel post office melbourne streeter mr james magill near adelaide south australia 2 strong co m…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 12 October 1861) · Papers Past, 12 Oct 1861
…nd cultivated land situated on the southern end of rural section 66 with long frontage on selwyn street freehold land sumner messrs aikman wilson have received instructions to dispose of twenty-five a…
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.-CLAIMS TO VOTE-1862. (Lyttelton Times, 09 April 1862) · Papers Past, 9 Apr 1862
…sedh n i i leasehold tancrel henry john nll frec freehld taylor eds christchurch preehold selwyn street freehold tompkins james henry fnini l household townshend thomas go street north freehold tulley…
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.—CLAIMS TO VOTE—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862) · Papers Past, 12 Apr 1862
…on house and land on sumner road in the town of christ church s on lower lincoln road and selwyn street section no 46 ot the christchurch town reserves situated part of sections 715 and 716 colombo st…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 29 July 1868) · Papers Past, 29 Jul 1868
…otified that no right of ownership to or priviiego of drawing water from tho pump well at selwyn street south fronting ward street addington can bo given i tho ownership and power of transference is v…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 25 January 1869) · Papers Past, 25 Jan 1869
…s and builders the provincial government invite ten ders for building a goods shed at the selwyn station plan and specification to be seen at the provincial engineer office christchurch tenders endors…
Magisterial. (Star, 04 May 1869) · Papers Past, 4 May 1869
…oies innes the same henry johnston cass river john johnstone loe leeston william lawrence selwyn stephen lawrence shand track simon mc��ue coal trask lauritz neilson porter pass william power bealey d…
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 27 July 1869) · Papers Past, 27 Jul 1869
…in antigua street and clearing out side drains and raking ruts on the east town belt and selwyn street permission was granted to the heathcote road board to carry out the works mentioned in the first…

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Christchurch South Karamata Intermediate School, Intermediate · decile 8 · EQI 411 · roll 492

The businesses on it, 5

Premises whose address in the directory is Selwyn Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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.

Jacksons Creek stream · 150 m away Selwyn Reserve viewing platform · 21 m away Selwyn Reserve boardwalk · 63 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Selwyn Street in 28 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 6 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Brougham Street & Selwyn Street, 34 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.