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Walton Street

1,431 reports at 25 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 149 separate days somebody filed something about it.

1,431 reports25 addresses149 days reported onfrom the air, then42 documents carry the namethe 443rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

39 Walton Street, 1006 reports41 Walton Street, 196 reports35 Walton Street, 69 reports45 Walton Street, 27 reports9 Walton Street, 18 reports43 Walton Street, 16 reports24 Walton Street, 12 reports15 Walton Street, 12 reports15B Walton Street, 10 reports20 Walton Street, 8 reports18 Walton Street, 8 reports34 Walton Street, 7 reports33 Walton Street, 7 reports42 Walton Street, 6 reports27 Walton Street, 6 reports23 Walton Street, 6 reports26 Walton Street, 3 reports40 Walton Street, 2 reports36 Walton Street, 2 reports3 Walton Street, 2 reports29 Walton Street, 2 reports28 Walton Street, 2 reports21 Walton Street, 2 reports32 Walton Street, 1 report18-42 Walton Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Walton Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Walton Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Walton 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 42 on the shelf; the 10 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 95 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 90 m away Jacksons Creek footbridge · 110 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 117 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 149 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Walton Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Water Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater General, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Walton Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Walton Street?

1,431 reports at 25 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (722), water & drains (256), graffiti & vandalism (131).

When was Walton Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 149 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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