Hackthorne Road

679 reports at 176 addresses in Cashmere, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 486 separate days somebody filed something about it.

679 reports 176 addresses486 days reported on4 on the register from the air, then 119 documents carry the name 4 businessesthe 50th 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 Hackthorne Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Cashmere.

From the air, then

Hackthorne Road from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

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

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

Hackthorne Road from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

and the other 116 the record names

What got reported

Water & drains, 326 reports
Roads & footpaths, 137 reports
Trees & parks, 85 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 55 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 49 reports
Everything else, 15 reports
Vehicles & parking, 11 reports
Noise, 1 report

Year by year

2016, 9 reports
2017, 23 reports
2018, 34 reports
2019, 25 reports
2020, 21 reports
2021, 19 reports
2022, 98 reports
2023, 134 reports
2024, 101 reports
2025, 116 reports

On the register

Dwelling and Setting, 141 Hackthorne Road
Dwelling and Setting, Blakeney, 30 Hackthorne Road
Dwelling and Setting, Hursthaven, 16 Hackthorne Road
Sign of the Takahe and Setting, 200 Hackthorne Road

On foot, The hillside climb walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 119 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Ashburton Guardian, 03 July 1888) · Papers Past, 3 Jul 1888
…ranch to mount somers pm astsurton depart 545 tinwald junction 55 chelmsford westei field hackthorne road valletta x anama t cavendish m j mount somers arrivej 720 to ashburton am mount somers m depar…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Ashburton Guardian, 22 March 1889) · Papers Past, 22 Mar 1889
…ranch to mount somers pm ashburton depart 545 tinwald junction 554 chelmsford westeriield hackthorne road valletta anama cavendish mount somerg arrive 70…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Ashburton Guardian, 07 January 1892) · Papers Past, 7 Jan 1892
…0 4 0 9 0 6 433 tinwaldjnc dep 4 34 chelmsford 1 8 1 1 2 3 1 5 westerfield 2 4 17 3 12 1 hackthorne road 211 2 0 311 2 8 yaletta 4 0 2 8 5 4 3 7 x anama 4 7 3 16 14 1 cavendish 5 0 3 4 6 8 4 5 mount…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 29 January 1892) · Papers Past, 29 Jan 1892
…n 0 6 0 4 0 6 0 6 433 tinwaldjnc dep 4 34 chelmsford 18 112 3 15 westerfield 2 4 1 3 12 1 hackthorne road 211 2 311 2 8 yaletta 4 0 2 8 5 4 3 7 t anatna 4 7 3 16 14 1 t cavendish 5 0 3 4 6 8 4 3 i mou…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 08 February 1892) · Papers Past, 8 Feb 1892
…djnc ro6 04o06 433 tinwaldjnc dep 434 chelmsford 1 8 1 1 2 3 1 5 westerfield 2 4 1 3 12 1 hackthorne road 211 2 311 2 8 valetta r 4 0 2 8 5 4 3 7 t anama 4731 61 4 i cavendish 5 0 3 4 6 8 4 5 mount so…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 11 February 1892) · Papers Past, 11 Feb 1892
…ldjnc arr 0604 09 0 6 433 tinwaldjnc dep chelmsiord 1 8 j 1 3 1 5 westerfield 2 4 1 6 1 1 hackthorne road 211 2 311 i a valetta 4028 54 3 7 anama u 3 cavendish 5 0 3 4 6 8 j 5 jf mount somer 5s3 jj lj…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 22 February 1892) · Papers Past, 22 Feb 1892
…h r x o i a i n mount somera j o i c-endish ij 2 5 1 anama o i 9 q i i valetta itllilll i hackthorne road j 1 westerfield 42 5 i i i chelmsford j j j 1 0 tinwaldjnc arr 510 311 7 9 5 3 935 tinwaldjnc…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 25 February 1892) · Papers Past, 25 Feb 1892
…ount somers jo9 16 10 cavendish j 4 10 j j a natna 1 10 1 3 2 5 1 8 j vzsta 2417 31 2 1 t hackthorne road 3 7 25 4 9 3 3 t westerfield x chelmsford 47 l 6141 j m tinwaldjnc arr 510 311 7 9 5 3 935 tin…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 26 February 1892) · Papers Past, 26 Feb 1892
…ldjnc w 06040909 433 tinwaldjnc dep 4 34 chelmsford 18 112 3 15 westerfield 2 4 1 3 1 2 1 hackthorne road 211 2 311 2 8 valetta 4 0 2 8 5 4 3 7 t antma 47 1 1 cavendish 5 0 3 4 6 8 4 5 mjuntsomcrr 553…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Ashburton Guardian, 11 March 1892) · Papers Past, 11 Mar 1892
…ers 12 0 9 16 10 j cavendish 1 4 010 1 9 1 2 anama 1 10 1 3 2 5 1 8 valetta 2 4 17 3 12 1 hackthorne road 3 7 2 5 4 9 3 3 westerfield 4 2 210 5 7 3 9 j chelmsford 4 7 3 16 14 1 tinwaldjnc arr 510 311…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Ashburton Guardian, 22 March 1892) · Papers Past, 22 Mar 1892
…s 12091610 x cavendish 1 4 010 1 9 1 2 j anama 110 1 3 2 5 1 tj t valetta 2 4 17 3 12 1 t hackthorne road 37254933 j westerfield 4 2 210 5 7 3 9 t chelmsford 4 7 3 1 6 1 4 1 tinwald jnc arr 510 311 7…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Ashburton Guardian, 01 April 1892) · Papers Past, 1 Apr 1892
…mera 12 0 9 16 10 cavendish 1 4 010 1 9 1 2 anama 110 1 3 2 5 1 8 valetta 2 4 17 3 12 1 t hackthorne road 3 7 2 5 4 9 3 3 j westerfield 4 2 210 s t chelmsford 4 7 3 1 6 1 4 1 tinwaldjnc arr 510 311 7…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Cashmere Primary Te Pae Kererū, Full Primary · decile 10 · EQI 368 · roll 501

The businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Hackthorne Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 88 m away Waimokihi Stream stream · 141 m away Sign of the Takahe Lookout lookout · 10 m away Water Tower (Cashmere Hill lookout) lookout · 11 m away Cracroft Reserve set of steps · 3 m away Cracroft Reserve set of steps · 6 m away Cracroft Reserve viewing platform · 9 m away Cracroft Reserve set of steps · 9 m away Cracroft Reserve set of steps · 10 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hackthorne Road in 47 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 21 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Dyers Pass Road & Hackthorne Road, 42 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.