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Valley Road

192 reports at 52 addresses in Cashmere, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 162 separate days somebody filed something about it.

192 reports52 addresses162 days reported on2 on the registerfrom the air, then287 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 396th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

50A Valley Road, 39 reports69B Valley Road, 10 reports55 Valley Road, 9 reports2A Valley Road, 9 reports2C Valley Road, 7 reports24A Valley Road, 7 reports44 Valley Road, 6 reports42B Valley Road, 6 reports42F Valley Road, 5 reports38 Valley Road, 5 reports18A Valley Road, 5 reports78 Valley Road, 4 reports48 Valley Road, 4 reports42 Valley Road, 4 reports36 Valley Road, 4 reports32 Valley Road, 4 reports30 Valley Road, 4 reports26A Valley Road, 4 reports23 Valley Road, 4 reports10 Valley Road, 4 reports69 Valley Road, 3 reports53 Valley Road, 3 reports42C Valley Road, 3 reports42A Valley Road, 3 reports18 Valley Road, 3 reports6 Valley Road, 2 reports51 Valley Road, 2 reports49 Valley Road, 2 reports28A Valley Road, 2 reports25 Valley Road, 2 reports1A Valley Road, 2 reports77 Valley Road, 1 report76 Valley Road, 1 report74 Valley Road, 1 report70 Valley Road, 1 report65 Valley Road, 1 report59 Valley Road, 1 report54-72 Valley Road, 1 report46 Valley Road, 1 report44A Valley Road, 1 report42D Valley Road, 1 report40 Valley Road, 1 report3A Valley Road, 1 report3 Valley Road, 1 report2a Valley Road, 1 report24 Valley Road, 1 report22A Valley Road, 1 report22 Valley Road, 1 report20A Valley Road, 1 report14B Valley Road, 1 report14 Valley Road, 1 report12 Valley Road, 1 reportFormer Dwelling and Setting, Ngaio Marsh House: registerNgaio Marsh House Garden: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Valley 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

Valley Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Valley Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Valley Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Valley 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

Year by year

On the register

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. 287 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Valley 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Valley Road in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Valley Road?

In Cashmere, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Valley Road?

192 reports at 52 addresses, most often water & drains (137), graffiti & vandalism (19), roads & footpaths (17).

When was Valley Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 162 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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