2 Wordsworth Street
7 council reports since September 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 93 Wordsworth Street, 48 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (91m)
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 →
The green nearby
- Sydenham Park, 314 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Buchan Playground, 400 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Antigua Reserve, 416 m to the edge
- Braddon Reserve, 418 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Eats on Orbell, 29 m away · Cafés
- Weft knitwear, 69 m away · Clothing
- Weft's Factory Shop, 69 m away · Clothing
- Flamingo Scooters, 77 m away · Company
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 342 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Wordsworth St, 352 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 345 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 360 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Sydenham ran about $518 a week, $32 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Jun 2026 Graffiti
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 27 Nov 2025 ALIAS black paint tag on a concrete base for a steel post on Orbell Street corner of 2 Wordsworth Street. By the footpath.
Graffiti somewhere else, 4 Nov 2024- Graffiti, 13 Apr 2023
- Graffiti, 13 Apr 2023
- Graffiti, 17 Nov 2022
- Graffiti, 22 Sept 2022
Elsewhere on Wordsworth Street
- 93 Wordsworth Street, 48 reports
- 161 Wordsworth Street, 47 reports
- 60 Wordsworth Street, 34 reports
- 74 Wordsworth Street, 27 reports
- 100 Wordsworth Street, 23 reports
- 97 Wordsworth Street, 21 reports
- 55 Wordsworth Street, 21 reports
- 95 Wordsworth Street, 19 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wordsworth Street in 70 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Wordsworth Street, the whole record → · Everything about Sydenham → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
7 council reports on record since September 2022, most often graffiti (4), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), graffiti somewhere else (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Wordsworth Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Sydenham Park, 314 m to its edge, 5 ha.


