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Leyden Street

9 reports at 1 address in Waltham, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 8 separate days somebody filed something about it.

9 reports1 address8 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 3599th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Leyden Street, 9 reports

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

From the air, then

Leyden Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Leyden Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Leyden Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Leyden 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.

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Leyden Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Leyden Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Leyden Street?

9 reports at 1 address, most often graffiti & vandalism (7), water & drains (1), rubbish & dumping (1).

When was Leyden Street first reported on?

2021, the record covers 8 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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