Thorrington Road

300 reports at 35 addresses in Cashmere, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 202 separate days somebody filed something about it.

300 reports 35 addresses202 days reported onfrom the air, then 4 documents carry the namethe 299th 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 Thorrington Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Cashmere.

From the air, then

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

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

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

Thorrington 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

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 79 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 71 reports
Trees & parks, 66 reports
Water & drains, 44 reports
Roads & footpaths, 23 reports
Everything else, 8 reports
Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
Animals & pests, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 3 reports
2017, 3 reports
2018, 1 report
2019, 8 reports
2020, 4 reports
2021, 4 reports
2022, 26 reports
2023, 21 reports
2024, 118 reports
2025, 66 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

BURWOOD MYSTERY (NZ Truth, 04 August 1927) · Papers Past, 4 Aug 1927
…aid to the detectives the same night walter scarff the well-known ghristchurch carrier of thorrington road cashhiere and father of the dead girl identified the body in the morgue as that of his daught…
BURWOOD MURDER (Evening Post, 30 August 1927) · Papers Past, 30 Aug 1927
…s latej employed by the white diamond cab company walter william scarff a carrier of no 1 thorrington road cashmere the father of the murdered girl stated that the accused had been employed by him as…
N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 17 September 1941) · Papers Past, 17 Sept 1941
…wing casualty list was issued last night missing i lamb john melville spr air j c lamb 15 thorrington road cashmere christchurch f prisoners of war international red cross geneva reports the following…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 December 1941) · Papers Past, 2 Dec 1941
…r a jardine 6 fanlcross street kelburn wellington f lamb john melville spr mr j g lamb 15 thorrington road cashmere christchurch f btainer reginald arthur spr mrs b stainer 99 jervois road stamshaw po…

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

The named ground

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

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 6 m away Waimokihi Stream stream · 38 m away Ernle Clark Reserve boardwalk · 10 m away Ernle Clark Reserve footbridge · 14 m away Ernle Clark Reserve set of steps · 30 m away Ernle Clark Reserve footbridge · 34 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Thorrington Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.