Yaldhurst Road

70 reports at 38 addresses in Avonhead, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 65 separate days somebody filed something about it.

70 reports 38 addresses65 days reported onfrom the air, then 36 documents carry the namethe 1022nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Yaldhurst Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Yaldhurst Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Yaldhurst Road 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

Roads & footpaths, 24 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 18 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 12 reports
Water & drains, 11 reports
Trees & parks, 4 reports
Vehicles & parking, 1 report

Year by year

2016, 1 report
2017, 4 reports
2019, 3 reports
2020, 2 reports
2021, 5 reports
2022, 8 reports
2023, 9 reports
2024, 15 reports
2025, 18 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 36 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

NOTES BY BEACON. (Otago Witness, 05 August 1887) · Papers Past, 5 Aug 1887
…steeplechase took place at yaldhurst oh saturday last a christchurch paper says that the yaldhurst road was crowded by persons anxious to obtain a view of the steeplechase which was organised by memb…
ROAD BOARDS. (Star, 10 September 1896) · Papers Past, 10 Sept 1896
…reference to drainage at riccarton church corner viz to construct an open crossing on the yaldhurst road opposite the parsonage grounds and to take up and re-lay culvert at the corner that the questio…
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 29 June 1906) · Papers Past, 29 Jun 1906
…nt 3 h drumy mo-nd was fined 10s and ootcffor riding b motor-cycle tn the footpath of the yaldhurst road henry deacon rayner on several charges of technical j theft in the misappropriation of lodge mo…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 16 January 1909) · Papers Past, 16 Jan 1909
…nt to trams near cashmere hills splendid rivet frontage remarkably cheap at 85 easy terms yaldhurst road v opposite ricoarton racecourse j 3 acres at bs per acre partly in oata and potatoes this is th…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 26 June 1909) · Papers Past, 26 Jun 1909
…at upper riccarton a first-class section of aout 3j a c r e s price per acre sitnated on yaldhurst road opposite ihe racecourse about 10 minutes walk from electrio tram w j hopkins and co agenta nat…
THE MOTOR-CAR FATALITY. (Star, 02 November 1909) · Papers Past, 2 Nov 1909
…that on the afternoon of october 13 he and his wife were at the junction of riccarton and yaldhurst roads waiting for a tram the time would be four oclock he did not know accused but he remembered a m…
CHRISTCHURCH DAY BY DAY. (Ashburton Guardian, 18 April 1913) · Papers Past, 18 Apr 1913
…s has now been done and riccarton possesses a domain of about seven acres fronting on the yaldhurst road past church corner the money was raised by a bazaar by subscriptions and by a grant from the wa…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Otago Daily Times 25-6-1917) · Papers Past, 25 Jun 1917
…SER, ALFRED HUGH (J. Fraser, Malby avenue, Tiniaru). FRANKS, GEO. ALFD. (Mrs S. E. Clark, Yaldhurst road. Christchurch, cousin). GAFFNEY, i?ATK. JOHN (Mrs J. Gaffney, Waimate, mother). GAUDIN, CJiCIL…
KNOCKED DOWN SY MOTOR CAR. (Ashburton Guardian, 31 May 1919) · Papers Past, 31 May 1919
…the southbridge sawniilling vjompany was knocked down hist evening by a motor-car on the yaldhurst road about a mile on the christchurch side of the yaldhurst hotel mr wm logan farmer of rakaia gorge…
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Ashburton Guardian, 18 August 1921) · Papers Past, 18 Aug 1921
…i-cab containing a party of six while motoring from yaldhurst collided with a dray on the yaldhurst road one of the members of the motoring party received a broken arm and other injuries causing his r…
BODY IDENTIFIED (Evening Post, 09 November 1926) · Papers Past, 9 Nov 1926
…n christchurch bth november the woman killed in the motor accident on saturday evening on yaldhurst road has been identified john ashby of geraldinc saw photos vf the three year-old boy in the newspap…
CHRISTCHURCH MOTORING FATALITY (Evening Post, 10 November 1926) · Papers Past, 10 Nov 1926
…hurch police state that the real name of the woman victim of the fatal motor smash ou the yaldhurst road was not mrs reed but mrs evelyn blanch hildebrand aged 37 of darfield she had been living apart…