208A Wordsworth Street
7 council reports since December 2022, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 93 Wordsworth Street, 48 reports on file.
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
- Thackeray Reserve, 346 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Tommy Taylor Reserve, 380 m to the edge
- Washington Way Reserve, 409 m to the edge · Sports ground
- Hastings Reserve, 434 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Scotty Browns, 14 m away · Bike shops
- Bellie Fillers, 48 m away · Fast food
- Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 50 m away · Op shops
- Max People Ltd, 79 m away · Recruitment
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Waltham Rd near Mowbray St, 103 m away · route 8, route 27
- Waltham Rd near Coleridge St, 127 m away · route 8, route 27
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 58 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 338 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 340 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 342 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 352 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
- Hazard, vehicle, 2
- Graffiti somewhere else, 2
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 27 Sept 2026 Graffiti ( black) on metal pole, Outside Christchurch Refrigeration, 210 Wordsworth Street Sydenham near corner Waltham Road ChCh Thanks. P
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 1 Mar 2025 Graffiti on 2 dark green cabinets 208 Wordsworth Street Sydenham Cabinets meters apart.
Graffiti somewhere else, 18 Nov 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 4 May 2024
Hazard, vehicle, 27 Mar 2024 Car parked over our entrance restricted access
- Graffiti, 19 Apr 2023
- Hazard, vehicle, 6 Dec 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 December 2022, most often hazard, vehicle (2), graffiti somewhere else (2), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Wordsworth Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thackeray Reserve, 346 m to its edge.




