Cashmere Road

160 reports at 47 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 143 separate days somebody filed something about it.

160 reports 47 addresses143 days reported onfrom the air, then 62 documents carry the namethe 470th 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 Cashmere Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Halswell.

From the air, then

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

Cashmere 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

Rubbish & dumping, 64 reports
Roads & footpaths, 44 reports
Trees & parks, 18 reports
Water & drains, 12 reports
Everything else, 7 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 7 reports
Animals & pests, 5 reports
Vehicles & parking, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 2 reports
2017, 5 reports
2018, 3 reports
2019, 9 reports
2020, 1 report
2021, 2 reports
2022, 9 reports
2023, 32 reports
2024, 29 reports
2025, 38 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 62 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 06 November 1861) · Papers Past, 6 Nov 1861
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of acces the cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch just received i i dozen scotch…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 09 November 1861) · Papers Past, 9 Nov 1861
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of accesthe cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch just received i ff dozen scotch…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 30 November 1861) · Papers Past, 30 Nov 1861
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of accesthe cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 December 1861) · Papers Past, 14 Dec 1861
…with a six-roomed house tho land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of acces the cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch j…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 21 December 1861) · Papers Past, 21 Dec 1861
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of acces the cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christohuroh…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 25 December 1861) · Papers Past, 25 Dec 1861
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of accesthe cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 11 January 1862) · Papers Past, 11 Jan 1862
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of accesthe cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch 245 for sale in dampier bay a f…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 15 January 1862) · Papers Past, 15 Jan 1862
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of accesthe cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch 245 for sale in dampier bay a f…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 18 January 1862) · Papers Past, 18 Jan 1862
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of accesthe cashmere road running through tho section r brunsden market place christchurch 245 black pine firewood rpile u…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 25 January 1862) · Papers Past, 25 Jan 1862
…with a six-roomed houae the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of acces the cashmere road running through the section r brunsden 1 market place christchurch 245 black pine fire wood hhhe…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 29 January 1862) · Papers Past, 29 Jan 1862
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of acces the cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch 245 land for sale the unsold po…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 05 February 1862) · Papers Past, 5 Feb 1862
…with a six-roomed house the land is partially fenced and cropped and is easy of accesthe cashmere road running through the section r brunsden market place christchurch 245 cjeveral sums to be investe…

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.

Hoon Hay Valley Stream stream · 10 m away Quarry Road Drain drain · 16 m away Cashmere Stream river · 58 m away STR_C_25 - Cashmere Road set of steps · 19 m away STR_C_25 - Cashmere Road set of steps · 23 m away Te Kuru boardwalk · 30 m away Halswell Quarry Park shelter · 52 m away unnamed footbridge · 61 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cashmere Road in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 11 seriously hurt.

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.