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Wordsworth Street

751 reports at 136 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 402 separate days somebody filed something about it.

751 reports136 addresses402 days reported onfrom the air, then79 documents carry the name12 businessesthe 78th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

93 Wordsworth Street, 48 reports161 Wordsworth Street, 47 reports60 Wordsworth Street, 34 reports74 Wordsworth Street, 27 reports100 Wordsworth Street, 23 reports97 Wordsworth Street, 21 reports55 Wordsworth Street, 21 reports95 Wordsworth Street, 19 reports47 Wordsworth Street, 18 reports151 Wordsworth Street, 18 reports97A Wordsworth Street, 15 reports58 Wordsworth Street, 15 reports45 Wordsworth Street, 14 reports62 Wordsworth Street, 13 reports5 Wordsworth Street, 13 reports194 Wordsworth Street, 13 reports169 Wordsworth Street, 13 reports174 Wordsworth Street, 12 reports212 Wordsworth Street, 11 reports158 Wordsworth Street, 11 reports152 Wordsworth Street, 11 reports102 Wordsworth Street, 11 reports56 Wordsworth Street, 10 reports40 Wordsworth Street, 10 reports192 Wordsworth Street, 9 reports107 Wordsworth Street, 9 reports49 Wordsworth Street, 8 reports163 Wordsworth Street, 8 reports108 Wordsworth Street, 8 reports33 Wordsworth Street, 7 reports31 Wordsworth Street, 7 reports208A Wordsworth Street, 7 reports2 Wordsworth Street, 7 reports139A Wordsworth Street, 7 reports64–98 Wordsworth Street, 6 reports177 Wordsworth Street, 6 reports161A Wordsworth Street, 6 reports118A Wordsworth Street, 6 reports112 Wordsworth Street, 6 reports32 Wordsworth Street, 5 reports20 Wordsworth Street, 5 reports99 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports94 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports48 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports42 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports35 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports30 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports205 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports185A Wordsworth Street, 4 reports162 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports134 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports127 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports113 Wordsworth Street, 4 reports22 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports208 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports2/5 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports196 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports173 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports170 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports167 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports163a Wordsworth Street, 3 reports139 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports135 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports132 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports119 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports110 Wordsworth Street, 3 reports96 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports90 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports76 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports61 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports56A Wordsworth Street, 2 reports55-73 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports49-55 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports43 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports29 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports212-210 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports210 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports199 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports192D Wordsworth Street, 2 reports190B Wordsworth Street, 2 reports190 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports185e Wordsworth Street, 2 reports185B Wordsworth Street, 2 reports181 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports166 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports142 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports129 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports124F Wordsworth Street, 2 reports124C Wordsworth Street, 2 reports124 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports121 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports118D Wordsworth Street, 2 reports118 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports106 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports105 Wordsworth Street, 2 reports92 Wordsworth Street, 1 report78 Wordsworth Street, 1 report57–97 Wordsworth Street, 1 report57 Wordsworth Street, 1 report54 Wordsworth Street, 1 report48-50 Wordsworth Street, 1 report39 Wordsworth Street, 1 report38 Wordsworth Street, 1 report37A Wordsworth Street, 1 report3/97 Wordsworth Street, 1 report25 Wordsworth Street, 1 report205a Wordsworth Street, 1 report204 Wordsworth Street, 1 report2/163 Wordsworth Street, 1 report198 Wordsworth Street, 1 report195 Wordsworth Street, 1 report192A Wordsworth Street, 1 report185 Wordsworth Street, 1 report183 Wordsworth Street, 1 report175 Wordsworth Street, 1 report164 Wordsworth Street, 1 report16 Wordsworth Street, 1 report157 Wordsworth Street, 1 report151-163 Wordsworth Street, 1 report150 Wordsworth Street, 1 report148 Wordsworth Street, 1 report140 Wordsworth Street, 1 report139/1 Wordsworth Street, 1 report138 Wordsworth Street, 1 report137 Wordsworth Street, 1 report125 Wordsworth Street, 1 report124E Wordsworth Street, 1 report124A Wordsworth Street, 1 report119/a Wordsworth Street, 1 report118B Wordsworth Street, 1 report117 Wordsworth Street, 1 report116 Wordsworth Street, 1 report114 Wordsworth Street, 1 report11 Wordsworth Street, 1 report105E Wordsworth Street, 1 report104 Wordsworth Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 76 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 79 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 12

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wordsworth Street in 70 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wordsworth Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wordsworth Street?

751 reports at 136 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (551), water & drains (59), roads & footpaths (55).

When was Wordsworth Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 402 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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