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Godley Head Road

19 reports at 1 address in Sumner, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

19 reports1 address18 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2508th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Godley Head Road, 19 reports

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Godley Head Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sumner.

From the air, then

Godley Head Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Godley Head Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Godley Head Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · 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.

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Godley Head Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Godley Head Road?

In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Godley Head Road?

19 reports at 1 address, most often trees & parks (8), water & drains (5), everything else (2).

When was Godley Head Road first reported on?

2022, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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