West Coast Road

31 reports at 13 addresses in Templeton, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 27 separate days somebody filed something about it.

31 reports 13 addresses27 days reported onfrom the air, then 90 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 2008th 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 West Coast Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Templeton.

From the air, then

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

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

West Coast 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

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 18 reports
Trees & parks, 10 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
Everything else, 1 report
Noise, 1 report

Year by year

2020, 2 reports
2022, 2 reports
2023, 11 reports
2024, 8 reports
2025, 7 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 90 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

CHRISTCHURCH. (Timaru Herald, 07 October 1865) · Papers Past, 7 Oct 1865
…committee to wait upon the government to obtain what information they could regarding the west coast road this committee accordingly did so and were most courteously received were shown reports letter…
CHRISTCHURCH. (Timaru Herald, 14 October 1865) · Papers Past, 14 Oct 1865
…p j the proper parties to get it forwarded at j once the news from the west coast and the west coast road are still the great matters of talk here a public meeting held at kaiapoi to urge the governme…
THE MOORHOUSE TUNNEL. (Hawke's Bay Herald, 08 June 1867) · Papers Past, 8 Jun 1867
…had this excitement quieted down before the canterbury goldfields were discovered and the west coast road crentm n demand for the special kind of laboul it x hi tk tumil tkus depriving the contractors…
GREAT MEETING IN CHRISTCHURCH. (Timaru Herald, 21 September 1867) · Papers Past, 21 Sept 1867
…the west coast line of road and the great southern railway they were all to blame for the west coast road they insisted on the government making it but as regarded the southern eailway they had great…
The Evening Post. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1867. (Evening Post, 30 October 1867) · Papers Past, 30 Oct 1867
…s of the same same name one in the vicinity of rangiora one leading from papanni into the west coast road and the other striking off from the riccarton road and running into the west coast road past t…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 16 October 1868) · Papers Past, 16 Oct 1868
…0 pups sheep pups for sale four 4 well-bred sheep pups by a well-known dog working on the west coast road apply office of this paper 135t for sale 200 half-bred southdown young ewes with three-quarter…
Craigieburn, West Coast Road. From the album: New Zealand Scenery, Series 1 · Te Papa Collections Online, 1 Jan 1870
Craigieburn, West Coast Road. From the album: New Zealand Scenery, Series 1, circa 1870, Christchurch, by Daniel Mundy, Me…
Craigieburn, West Coast Road · Akaroa Museum, 1 Jan 1870
…inted in their "Views & Landscapes of New Zealand" series, titled: "No. 48 - Craigieburn, West Coast Road.... Provenance: Donated by Alastair Craw. Collection compliled by the Craw family over several…
Local and General. (Star, 01 March 1870) · Papers Past, 1 Mar 1870
…yal under the gaslight was performed for the fourth time last evening to a fair house the west coast road this road is still closed for coach traffic and the mails have to be packed from the saddle to…
Local and General. (Star, 09 May 1870) · Papers Past, 9 May 1870
…the deputation appointed at the public meeting at rangiora till tuesday may 17 at noon v west coast road tbe hokitika paper jot may 4 says persons who are in the habit of going overland willbe glad t…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Timaru Herald, 28 September 1870) · Papers Past, 28 Sept 1870
…at 7 pm waihi schoolroom tuesday october 11 at 7 pm kowai pass bailey accommodation house west coast road tuesday october 11 at 7 pm stoke schoolroom tuesday october 11 at 7 pm henry john tancred chai…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 22 March 1872) · Papers Past, 22 Mar 1872
…d in handsome gilt frames oil paintings ist prize aylmer valley akaroa falls of the taipo west coast road 2nd prize view of pigeon bay akaroa from tiie sed house 3rd prize akaroa aylmer valley from hi…

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is West Coast Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

Miners Arms Alpaca FarmstayB&Bs · 441 Old West Coast Road, Templeton

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Rimu Park shelter · 108 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names West Coast Road in 11 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 seriously hurt.

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.