Yaldhurst Road
6 reports at 5 addresses in Broomfield, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 6 separate days somebody filed something about it.
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 Broomfield.
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 addresses on it
- 371 Yaldhurst Road, 2 reports
- 407 Yaldhurst Road, 1 report
- 401 Yaldhurst Road, 1 report
- 220 Yaldhurst Road, 1 report
- 218 Yaldhurst Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2022, 1 report
- 2023, 1 report
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 2 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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Yaldhurst Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Curletts Road & Yaldhurst Road, 36 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Broomfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.
6 reports at 5 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (2), water & drains (1), vehicles & parking (1).
2022, the record covers 6 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Curletts Road and Yaldhurst Road, 36 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 1 of them fatal.
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