Blighs Road

372 reports at 107 addresses in Strowan, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 303 separate days somebody filed something about it.

372 reports 107 addresses303 days reported onfrom the air, then 10 documents carry the name 3 businessesthe 152nd 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 Blighs Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Strowan.

From the air, then

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

Blighs Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

Blighs 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

120 Blighs Road, 56 reports
68 Blighs Road, 19 reports
131 Blighs Road, 16 reports
1 Blighs Road, 10 reports
135 Blighs Road, 9 reports
121 Blighs Road, 9 reports
88 Blighs Road, 7 reports
55 Blighs Road, 7 reports
115 Blighs Road, 7 reports
114 Blighs Road, 7 reports
6 Blighs Road, 6 reports
145 Blighs Road, 6 reports
133 Blighs Road, 6 reports
122 Blighs Road, 6 reports
116 Blighs Road, 6 reports
85 Blighs Road, 5 reports
35 Blighs Road, 5 reports
18 Blighs Road, 5 reports
128 Blighs Road, 5 reports
125B Blighs Road, 5 reports
96 Blighs Road, 4 reports
70 Blighs Road, 4 reports
52 Blighs Road, 4 reports
31 Blighs Road, 4 reports
197 Blighs Road, 4 reports
193 Blighs Road, 4 reports
179 Blighs Road, 4 reports
170 Blighs Road, 4 reports
164 Blighs Road, 4 reports
117 Blighs Road, 4 reports
113 Blighs Road, 4 reports
84 Blighs Road, 3 reports
83 Blighs Road, 3 reports
81 Blighs Road, 3 reports
75 Blighs Road, 3 reports
72 Blighs Road, 3 reports
24 Blighs Road, 3 reports
173 Blighs Road, 3 reports
157 Blighs Road, 3 reports
156 Blighs Road, 3 reports
14 Blighs Road, 3 reports
130 Blighs Road, 3 reports
126 Blighs Road, 3 reports
11 Blighs Road, 3 reports
86A Blighs Road, 2 reports
86 Blighs Road, 2 reports
79B Blighs Road, 2 reports
42 Blighs Road, 2 reports
27 Blighs Road, 2 reports
22A Blighs Road, 2 reports
21 Blighs Road, 2 reports
205 Blighs Road, 2 reports
196 Blighs Road, 2 reports
189 Blighs Road, 2 reports
188 Blighs Road, 2 reports
186 Blighs Road, 2 reports
175 Blighs Road, 2 reports
16 Blighs Road, 2 reports
157A Blighs Road, 2 reports
154 Blighs Road, 2 reports

and the other 47 the record names

145A Blighs Road, 2 reports
140 Blighs Road, 2 reports
138 Blighs Road, 2 reports
129 Blighs Road, 2 reports
125 Blighs Road, 2 reports
123E Blighs Road, 2 reports
119 Blighs Road, 2 reports
10 Blighs Road, 2 reports
98 Blighs Road, 1 report
97 Blighs Road, 1 report
79-87 Blighs Road, 1 report
79 Blighs Road, 1 report
77A Blighs Road, 1 report
77 Blighs Road, 1 report
71 Blighs Road, 1 report
66 Blighs Road, 1 report
44 Blighs Road, 1 report
40 Blighs Road, 1 report
38 Blighs Road, 1 report
36 Blighs Road, 1 report
29B Blighs Road, 1 report
29A Blighs Road, 1 report
29 Blighs Road, 1 report
28 Blighs Road, 1 report
203 Blighs Road, 1 report
200 Blighs Road, 1 report
19A Blighs Road, 1 report
191 Blighs Road, 1 report
19 Blighs Road, 1 report
187 Blighs Road, 1 report
17 Blighs Road, 1 report
167 Blighs Road, 1 report
163 Blighs Road, 1 report
161 Blighs Road, 1 report
159 Blighs Road, 1 report
150 Blighs Road, 1 report
144 Blighs Road, 1 report
127 Blighs Road, 1 report
125A Blighs Road, 1 report
125-131 Blighs Road, 1 report
122A Blighs Road, 1 report
12 Blighs Road, 1 report
118 Blighs Road, 1 report
110 Blighs Road, 1 report
102 Blighs Road, 1 report
100 Blighs Road, 1 report
1-5 Blighs Road, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 119 reports
Water & drains, 100 reports
Roads & footpaths, 90 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 30 reports
Trees & parks, 19 reports
Vehicles & parking, 10 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 5 reports
2017, 3 reports
2018, 10 reports
2019, 18 reports
2020, 37 reports
2021, 26 reports
2022, 38 reports
2023, 67 reports
2024, 60 reports
2025, 43 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 08 February 1888) · Papers Past, 8 Feb 1888
…onerally ueeful wl star office 0334 wanted boy to milk about 16 years old apply to c were blighs road papanui 9415 anted general servant 16 or 18 years old so lich field street reference required 9414…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 23 September 1899) · Papers Past, 23 Sept 1899
…chains frontage x 2 chains deep 125 each i papanui road close to hawthorn road l-acra 100 blighs road just off f-acre and 7 perches well fenced 65 must be sold j chapel street three i-acre building se…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 04 November 1899) · Papers Past, 4 Nov 1899
…lery washhouse copocr stabling coachhouso and man 3 room etc h l bowker son market square blighs road just off about a acres first-class land j-acre garden orchard houso 5 rooms iron roof stable and o…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 25 August 1902) · Papers Past, 25 Aug 1902
…with pantry copper and scullery full quarter-acre 133 ft frontag very easy terms papanui blighs road just off house 6 rooms balh washhouecullery verandah good orchard nearly half an acre 400 sections…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 21 January 1904) · Papers Past, 21 Jan 1904
…oper vies ior oaiw v jj donald mclennan house and estat agent 120 colombo street for sale blighs road a good spec good 6-roomed house scullery verandah etc dairy stable trapshed orchard 1 acre 550 mad…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 02 June 1905) · Papers Past, 2 Jun 1905
…ntreal and walker streets 8273 wanted capable girl as general f liberal wages mrs powri-3 blighs road five minutes from tram 8258 oyanted for year unfurnished 5 or 6 tj roomed house sumner c times age…
NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 27 May 1941) · Papers Past, 27 May 1941
…l barnsley newport terrace seatoun wellington m beattie thomas c pte mrs n l beattie 186 blighs road papanui christchurch w bell lan s tbdr mr h n bell box 885 auckland f bennett george a s gnr airs…
TODAY'S LIST (Evening Post, 30 June 1941) · Papers Past, 30 Jun 1941
…john pte mr 3 m garforth high street greymouth s henshaw james parker pte mr g henshaw 5 blighs road papanul f houghton laurence douglas livingstone cpl mrs m a houghton 82 albany street dunedin w ho…
REPORTED SAFE (Evening Post, 23 April 1945) · Papers Past, 23 Apr 1945
…ntgomery 243 great south road greenlane m jiulholland edgar p lcpl jlrs l jlulholland 189 blighs road christchurch m norrish joseph j pte jlrs l symondsj 100 byron street sydenham friend patterson fre…
Picea pungens Engelm. · Te Papa Collections Online, 6 Aug 1965
Picea pungens Engelm., collected 6 August 1965, [Cultivated], Christchurch, garden in Blighs Road, New Zealand. Exchange from Allan Herbarium, 2000. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP082054) Plants; Te Papa…

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

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Blighs Road, 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 open map’s record.

Dudley Creek stream · 3 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Blighs Road in 26 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Blighs Road & Papanui Road, 42 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.