Martindales Road

205 reports at 60 addresses in Heathcote Valley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 183 separate days somebody filed something about it.

205 reports 60 addresses183 days reported onfrom the air, then 6 documents carry the namethe 334th 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 Martindales Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Heathcote Valley.

From the air, then

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

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

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

Martindales 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

Water & drains, 48 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 45 reports
Trees & parks, 40 reports
Roads & footpaths, 34 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 33 reports
Vehicles & parking, 4 reports
Everything else, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 9 reports
2016, 7 reports
2017, 2 reports
2018, 7 reports
2019, 15 reports
2020, 10 reports
2021, 21 reports
2022, 33 reports
2023, 35 reports
2024, 22 reports
2025, 20 reports

In the written record

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

View of Heathcote Valley from "Hillwood" · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1910
Bridle Path Road in immediate foreground, looking towards Maltworks, railway viaduct and Martindales Road. Gimblett family collection…
Steam train passing over Martindales Road viaduct · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1910
Steam engine, locomotive Ub class number 371, pulling goods wagons across Martindales Road viaduct, Heathcote Gimblett family collection…
Anzac Day ceremony at Heathcote War Memorial · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
Wreaths being laid at the Heathcote War Memorial at the intersection of Bridle Path Road, Martindales Road, and Flavell Street. Gimblett family collection…
Anzac Day ceremony at Heathcote War Memorial · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
…ceremony at the Heathcote War Memorial situated at the intersection of Bridle Path Road, Martindales Road, and Flavell Street. Gimblett family collection…
Anzac Day ceremony at Heathcote War Memorial · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
The Heathcote War Memorial at the intersection of Bridle Path Road, Martindales Road, and Flavell Street with wreaths and flags displayed. Gimblett family collection…
Anzac Day ceremony at Heathcote War Memorial · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
The Heathcote War Memorial at the intersection of Bridle Path Road, Martindales Road, and Flavell Street with wreaths and flags displayed. Gimblett family collection…

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Martindales Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 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.