18R Gow Place
4 council reports since December 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 20 Gow Place, 21 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
- Linwood Esplanade Reserve, 82 m to the edge
- Linwood Nursery, 163 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Linwood Park, 173 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 83 pieces
- Arran Playground, 352 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Linwood Pool: Te Pou Toetoe, 236 m away · Sports centres
- Koki Dairy, 326 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Linwood Ave near Tilford St, 207 m away · route 140
- Linwood Ave near Tilford St, 264 m away · route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 5 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 195 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 208 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 217 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 287 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Christchurch City Council / Parks and Recreation Depot, 151 m away ·
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL / PARKS AND RECREATION DEPOT / OFFICIALLY OPENED BY / THE MAYOR
· 1899
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Woolston ran about $511 a week, $39 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Animal - General, 23 Mar 2026 some sicko had woven an eel into the fence at the back of the Linwood garden on the pathway alongside Linwood drain about 50 in from the Smi
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 23 Oct 2025 Tags on fence on pathway along Linwood drain about 30 west of footbridge at Gow Place.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Sept 2025 Tags on fence along Linwood drain walkway between Gow Place and Smith St.
Park - General Request, 2 Dec 2024
Elsewhere on Gow Place
- 20 Gow Place, 21 reports
- 18 Gow Place, 20 reports
- 19 Gow Place, 3 reports
- 17 Gow Place, 1 report
- 12 Gow Place, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Linwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Gow Place, the whole record → · Everything about Woolston → · 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
4 council reports on record since December 2024, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), park - general request (1), animal - general (1).
Woolston, Christchurch, on Gow Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Linwood Esplanade Reserve, 82 m to its edge.



