Ferry Road

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Ferry Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Woolston.

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 →

Then and now

The photograph names Ferry 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 Claude's Kitchen). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

• 502 Ferry Road, 59 reports
• 690 Ferry Road, 43 reports
• 689 Ferry Road, 40 reports
• 564 Ferry Road, 33 reports
• 583 Ferry Road, 32 reports
• 800 Ferry Road, 30 reports
• 608 Ferry Road, 30 reports
• 560 Ferry Road, 30 reports
• 543 Ferry Road, 27 reports
• 502E Ferry Road, 26 reports
• 853 Ferry Road, 23 reports
• 713 Ferry Road, 23 reports
• 831 Ferry Road, 22 reports
• 693 Ferry Road, 22 reports
• 476 Ferry Road, 21 reports
• 687 Ferry Road, 20 reports
• 656 Ferry Road, 20 reports
• 476-502 Ferry Road, 20 reports
• 598 Ferry Road, 19 reports
• 694 Ferry Road, 16 reports
• 679 Ferry Road, 15 reports
• 726 Ferry Road, 14 reports
• 681 Ferry Road, 14 reports
• 475 Ferry Road, 14 reports
• 685 Ferry Road, 13 reports
• 640 Ferry Road, 13 reports
• 611L Ferry Road, 13 reports
• 604 Ferry Road, 13 reports
• 593 Ferry Road, 13 reports
• 396A Ferry Road, 13 reports
• 841E Ferry Road, 12 reports
• 729 Ferry Road, 12 reports
• 619 Ferry Road, 12 reports
• 464 Ferry Road, 12 reports
• 390 Ferry Road, 12 reports
• 819 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 732 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 683 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 669 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 654 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 605 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 596 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 546 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 535 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 507 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 505 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 497 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 456 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 448 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 438 Ferry Road, 11 reports
• 773 Ferry Road, 10 reports
• 416 Ferry Road, 10 reports
• 380 Ferry Road, 10 reports
• 779 Ferry Road, 9 reports
• 701 Ferry Road, 9 reports
• 642 Ferry Road, 9 reports
• 589 Ferry Road, 9 reports
• 569 Ferry Road, 9 reports
• 541 Ferry Road, 9 reports
• 501 Ferry Road, 9 reports

What got reported

• Graffiti & vandalism, 971 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 305 reports
• Water & drains, 197 reports
• Roads & footpaths, 191 reports
• Trees & parks, 103 reports
• Everything else, 38 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 36 reports
• Noise, 7 reports

Year by year

• 2015, 17 reports
• 2016, 59 reports
• 2017, 73 reports
• 2018, 66 reports
• 2019, 98 reports
• 2020, 76 reports
• 2021, 104 reports
• 2022, 184 reports
• 2023, 239 reports
• 2024, 319 reports
• 2025, 359 reports

On the register

• Commercial Building and Setting, 650 Ferry Road
• Dwelling and Setting, Whalebone Cottage, 704 Ferry Road

On foot, The borough’s own walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,832 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1851) · Papers Past, 12 Apr 1851
  …f land excavating sites for buildings embanking c john wilson and charles bourn heathcote ferry road near christchurch g allen 13egs respectfully to announce to the l-f inhabitants of christchurch tha…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 February 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Feb 1852
  …on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchurch messrs taylor howard t espectfully inform the public ti that they are now enabled…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 27 March 1852) · Papers Past, 27 Mar 1852
  …on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchurch…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 03 April 1852) · Papers Past, 3 Apr 1852
  …on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road nearchristchurch j f smart carman c corner of madras street and sumner soad at the entrance of chri…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 17 April 1852) · Papers Past, 17 Apr 1852
  …on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchtm-h registry and general agency office cj gibbs begs to inform the public that nj he…
• Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 01 May 1852) · Papers Past, 1 May 1852
  …on hand goods carefully removed and carted on reasonable terms to any part of the plains ferry road near christchurch caversham house christchurch t f smart begs to inform the gentry and inhabitants…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 12 June 1852) · Papers Past, 12 Jun 1852
  …sections in lyttelton and christchurch also rural lanu on the christchurch and heath cote-ferry road on the p-ipanui road and near riccarton cookson bowler co lyttelton jnne 101852 to be let on lease…
• Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
  …market place christch gunsmith disher william john armagh st christch carter dixon joseph ferry road labourer dobbs arthur governor bay gentleman dobson alfred tuam st christch architect and surveyor…
• Page 10 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
  …am benjamin heathcote river gentleman alfrey george near river avon labourer allen george ferry road market gardener allen james london st lyttelton shoemaker allen joseph oxford ter christch shoemake…
• Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
  …ay lyttelton cattle agent paddock charles loudon street lyttelton carpenteil palmer david ferry road labourer papprill joseph william market-place christchurch labourer parish john ferry road labourer…
• Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
  …an brown thomas riccarton road labourer bruer thomas london st lyttelton baker bryan john ferry road labourer bryan thomas mitchell riccarton brickmaker bryant william london st lyttelton shoemaker bu…
• Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
  …d mariner marsh isaac riccarton labourer marsh thomas h port albert mariner marshall john ferry road labourer marshman john canterbury street lyttelton accountant martin john bridle path labourer maso…

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

• Kimihia Parents' College, Teen Parent Unit · decile 1 · EQI 569
• St Anne's School (Woolston), Full Primary · decile 3 · EQI 447 · roll 182
• Te Waka Unua School, Full Primary · decile 2 · EQI 509 · roll 501

The businesses on it, 63

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

• Animal and Bird HospitalVets · 483 Ferry Road
• Arcadia MotelMotels · 564 Ferry Road, Woolston
• Around Again CyclesBike shops · 620 Ferry Road
• Ayutthaya Thai TakeawayFast food · 608 Ferry Road, Woolston
• BestStart Ferry RoadEducation & tutoring · 533 Ferry Road
• Book Barn on FerryBookshops · 374 Ferry Road
• Burger BonanzaFast food · 628 Ferry Road, Woolston
• Chef Astig CuisineFast food · 378 Ferry Road, Woolston
• Chef Astig EuroAsian CuisineRestaurants · 1/378 Ferry Road
• Claude's KitchenCafés · 390 Ferry Road
• Complete Tyre & AutoCar repair · 395 Ferry Road
• Domino'sFast food · 681 Ferry Road, Woolston

…and 51 more whose address names it.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ferry Road in 192 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 people killed, 43 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Ferry Road & Fitzgerald Avenue, 68 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 3

3 Metro stops on Ferry Road in Woolston, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 3.

• Ferry Rd near Catherine St
• Ferry Rd near Oak St
• Ferry Rd near Portman St

Every route in the record →

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.

• Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 26 May 1877) · Star, 26 May 1877
• ROAD BOARDS (Star, 17 May 1880) · Star, 17 May 1880
• DRAINAGE MEETING AT WOOLSTON. (Star, 18 September 1884) · Star, 18 Sept 1884
• Woolston Town Board. (Star, 17 October 1884) · Star, 17 Oct 1884
• MAGISTERIAL. (Star, 25 February 1888) · Star, 25 Feb 1888
• ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM. (Otago Daily Times, 29 June 1888) · Otago Daily Times, 29 Jun 1888
• CHRISTCHURCH.���Last night. (Thames Star, 07 July 1888) · Thames Star, 7 Jul 1888
• Accidents and Fatalities. (Evening Post, 07 July 1888) · Evening Post, 7 Jul 1888
• BOY KILLED. (Auckland Star, 07 July 1888) · Auckland Star, 7 Jul 1888
• MARRIAGES. (Star, 17 January 1899) · Star, 17 Jan 1899
• THE HEATHCOTE BRIDGE. (Star, 14 April 1902) · Star, 14 Apr 1902
• FERRY ROAD INQUIRY. (Star, 02 December 1902) · Star, 2 Dec 1902
• TRAM COLLISION IN CHRISTCHURCH. (Nelson Evening Mail, 13 April 1903) · Nelson Evening Mail, 13 Apr 1903
• TRAM MISHAP AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Marlborough Express, 14 April 1903) · Marlborough Express, 14 Apr 1903
• TRAMWAY ACCIDENT. (Feilding Star, 14 April 1903) · Feilding Star, 14 Apr 1903
• THE TRAMWAY PROPOSALS. (Star, 09 June 1903) · Star, 9 Jun 1903
• THE COMING ELECTIONS. (Star, 22 June 1906) · Star, 22 Jun 1906
• THE FERRY ROAD CANAL. (Star, 30 March 1909) · Star, 30 Mar 1909
• ELDERLY MAN'S DEATH (Hawera & Normanby Star, 13 December 1913) · Hawera & Normanby Star, 13 Dec 1913
• HIT AND RUN" (Evening Post, 21 April 1932) · Evening Post, 21 Apr 1932

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

• Ferry Road reopens after pedestrian hit by vehicle · The news · Chris Lynch Media, 15 Sept 2026
• Ferry Road blocked after crash involving pedestrian · The news · Chris Lynch Media, 15 Sept 2026
• Does anyone know the story about the man who is always hanging around the lights at the intersection of Bridle Path Rd and Ferry Road/Main Rd in Ferrymead? The dude who is either dancing, singing… · r/chch · EquipmentHot924, 13 Sept 2026

As it was reported

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The latest on it

• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 713 Ferry Road, 11 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 704 Ferry Road, 8 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 439 Ferry Road, 7 Oct 2026
• Damaged Asset – CCC contractor, 392 Ferry Rd, 6 Oct 2026
• Water Leak, 687 Ferry Road, 6 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 801 Ferry Road, 6 Oct 2026
• Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 560 Ferry Road, 5 Oct 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 841E Ferry Road, 5 Oct 2026
• Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 654 Ferry Road, 5 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 635 Ferry Road, 5 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 583 Ferry Road, 3 Oct 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 433 Ferry Rd, 30 Sept 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 649 Ferry Road, 30 Sept 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 583 Ferry Road, 28 Sept 2026
• Damaged Street Sign, 455 Ferry Road, 28 Sept 2026