Racecourse Road
No council reports on record for Racecourse Road, Upper Riccarton, but the street isn’t unknown to the archive: 1 place on the heritage register carries the name.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Racecourse Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Upper Riccarton.
From the air, then
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 →
On the register
- Dwelling and Setting, Chokebore Lodge, 148 Racecourse Road
On foot, The old road’s houses walks this street.
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 51 on the shelf; the 7 earliest:
- Magisterial. (Star, 04 May 1869)
· Papers Past,
…teston road philip martin lincoln road withdrawn edward prebble prebbleson william pogson racecourse road riccarton samuel treleaven north road william cole webb riccarton conditional joseph jone3 rai…
- Latest Locals. (Star, 14 March 1893)
· Papers Past,
…and hawke streets new brighton in order a deputation asked to have j sixty chains of the racecourse road metalled and another portion clayed tt was resolved to metal twenty chains messrs clarke and c…
- NEW BRIGHTON. (Star, 07 February 1898)
· Papers Past,
…he north avon road thence again towards the north-east by the said north avon road to the racecourse road and thence towards the west by the said racecourse road passing sections nos 4665 6385 7196 an…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 30 September 1899)
· Papers Past,
…tesian well situated cemetery road burwood price 8 per acre h l bowkbr son market square racecourse roadrnew brighton 3o acres fair land levelled 6 per acre h l bowker son market square burwood io4 a…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 07 October 1899)
· Papers Past,
…ar tosian well situated cemetery road burwood price per acre h l bowker son market square racecourse road new brighton 3o acres fair laud levelled 6 per acre h l bowker son market square burwood ioi a…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 04 November 1899)
· Papers Past,
…d locks water-race through house 6 rooms iron roof price 330 h l bowker son market square racecourse road new brighton 30 acres fair land levelled 6 per aero h l bowker son market square burwood io ac…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 11 November 1899)
· Papers Past,
…d docks water-race through house 6 rooms iron roof price 330 h l bowker son market square racecourse road new brighton 30 acres fair land levelled 6 per acre h l bowker son market square burwood io ac…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
Questions, answered briefly
In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
No council reports, but 1 heritage-register place carry the name.
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