Riccarton Road

535 reports at 130 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 342 separate days somebody filed something about it.

535 reports 130 addresses342 days reported on3 on the register from the air, then then / now 438 documents carry the name 56 businessesthe 122nd 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 Riccarton 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

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

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

Riccarton 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 →

Then and now

**Then**, 1900 · Bush Inn, Riccarton Road, Christchurch

Now: Google Street View, 2017-11

The photograph names Riccarton Road in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Fresco Fisheries). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

372 Riccarton Road, 21 reports
355C Riccarton Road, 18 reports
331A Riccarton Road, 16 reports
355 Riccarton Road, 14 reports
394 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
364 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
251 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
393 Riccarton Road, 12 reports
374 Riccarton Road, 12 reports
349 Riccarton Road, 12 reports
386 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
361 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
353 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
350 Riccarton Road, 10 reports
8/380 Riccarton Road, 9 reports
251B Riccarton Road, 9 reports
398 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
351 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
331 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
325 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
266 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
247 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
390 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
380 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
343 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
305 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
293 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
275 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
256 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
335 Riccarton Road, 6 reports
288 Riccarton Road, 6 reports
392 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
388 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
336 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
329 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
327 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
300 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
262 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
258 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
249 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
239 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
228 Riccarton Road, 5 reports
347 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
338 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
318 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
299 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
296 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
281 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
262A Riccarton Road, 4 reports
252 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
250 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
237 Riccarton Road, 4 reports
384 Riccarton Road, 3 reports
333 Riccarton Road, 3 reports
322 Riccarton Road, 3 reports
309 Riccarton Road, 3 reports
298A Riccarton Road, 3 reports
298 Riccarton Road, 3 reports
287A Riccarton Road, 3 reports
285b Riccarton Road, 3 reports

and the other 70 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 298 reports
Roads & footpaths, 89 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 67 reports
Water & drains, 32 reports
Trees & parks, 31 reports
Vehicles & parking, 12 reports
Everything else, 6 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 9 reports
2016, 13 reports
2017, 13 reports
2018, 18 reports
2019, 14 reports
2020, 24 reports
2021, 18 reports
2022, 40 reports
2023, 72 reports
2024, 149 reports
2025, 82 reports

On the register

Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, 350 Riccarton Road
Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road
J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton 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. 438 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 08 May 1852) · Papers Past, 8 May 1852
…rs watts russell gave a ball to a numerous party of their friends the cottagers along the riccarton road must have been surprised at the number of drays spring-carts horsemen and footpassengers procee…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…gsumner master mariner day robert sumner labourer day william sumner carpenter day robert riccarton road labourer de joux gideon near the lower avon stockman denham joseph cashel street christch baker…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…lombo st christch farmer arnett edward oxford terrace christchurch carpenter ashby edward riccarton road labourer ashby joseph oxford st lyttelton tailor austin benjamin george market place christchur…
Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…n parsons charles governor bay farmer patrick john papanui road labourer pattison william riccarton road brickmaker 1 payton samuel london st lyttelton labourer peach conyers riccarton road horsebreak…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…durham st christch sawyer brown john thomas gloucester st christch gentleman brown thomas riccarton road labourer bruer thomas london st lyttelton baker bryan john ferry road labourer bryan thomas mit…
Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…lodge john brenchley farm labourer lomas richard bricks christchurch labourer long george riccarton road labourer long samuel riccarton road labourer longden joseph norwich quay lyttelton merchant luc…
Page 11 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…ardwick worcester st christch gafpenter killjjoseph papanui shingle splitter hill william riccarton road labourer hill william henry riccarton labourer hills george armagh st christch carpenter hodgso…
Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…umner road lyttelton printer varay thomas norwich quay christchurch labourer vickery john riccarton road labourer vigors charles governor bay gentleman vincent william papanui carpenter wakefield edwa…
Page 12 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…r shepperd thomas avon river carpenter short george governor bay wood cutter shreeve saul riccarton road labourer sidebottom tuam st christch gentleman silk alfred norwich quay lyttelton storekeeper s…
Page 11 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…arles oxford st lyttelton mariner garland joseph lower heathcote labourer garlick william riccarton road brickmaker gartner gustavus columho st christchurch publican gaskell thomas governor bay farmer…
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853) · Papers Past, 16 Jul 1853
…eorge boys john coavell bradley samuel ferry road lyttelton lower lincoln road ashby vill riccarton road lyttelton brenchley farm worcester street christchurch ferry road christchurch j christchurch j…
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 16 August 1854) · Papers Past, 16 Aug 1854
…ual value of 5 freeholder section 10i ferry road leaseholder rural section 86 householder riccarton road freehold christchurch district freehold ferry road and other placesy in the christchurch distri…

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

The businesses on it, 56

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

…and 44 more whose address names it.

The named ground

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

Milnebank Reserve footbridge · 140 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Riccarton Road in 178 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 23 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Main South Road & Riccarton Road, 75 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.