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Wardell Street

14 reports at 8 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2022, the latest 2025. 12 separate days somebody filed something about it.

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Where it runs

8 Wardell Street, 4 reports10 Wardell Street, 3 reports15 Wardell Street, 2 reports6 Wardell Street, 1 report3–21 Wardell Street, 1 report25 Wardell Street, 1 report11 Wardell Street, 1 report1 Wardell Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wardell Street?

In Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wardell Street?

14 reports at 8 addresses, most often trees & parks (11), roads & footpaths (2), water & drains (1).

When was Wardell Street first reported on?

2022, the record covers 12 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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