Halswell Road

414 reports at 125 addresses in Hillmorton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 336 separate days somebody filed something about it.

414 reports 125 addresses336 days reported onfrom the air, then 95 documents carry the name 6 businessesthe 131st 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 Halswell Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hillmorton.

From the air, then

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

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

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

Halswell 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

37 Halswell Road, 52 reports
1 Halswell Road, 27 reports
2 Halswell Road, 24 reports
10 Halswell Road, 16 reports
14 Halswell Road, 12 reports
52 Halswell Road, 11 reports
60 Halswell Road, 10 reports
112 Halswell Road, 10 reports
33 Halswell Road, 8 reports
45 Halswell Road, 7 reports
25 Halswell Road, 7 reports
104 Halswell Road, 7 reports
7 Halswell Road, 6 reports
170 Halswell Road, 6 reports
110 Halswell Road, 6 reports
102 Halswell Road, 6 reports
87 Halswell Road, 5 reports
3 Halswell Road, 5 reports
9 Halswell Road, 4 reports
62 Halswell Road, 4 reports
61 Halswell Road, 4 reports
53 Halswell Road, 4 reports
17-35 Halswell Road, 4 reports
156 Halswell Road, 4 reports
126A Halswell Road, 4 reports
120 Halswell Road, 4 reports
98 Halswell Road, 3 reports
91A Halswell Road, 3 reports
75 Halswell Road, 3 reports
64 Halswell Road, 3 reports
63 Halswell Road, 3 reports
58 Halswell Road, 3 reports
57 Halswell Road, 3 reports
43 Halswell Road, 3 reports
27 Halswell Road, 3 reports
176 Halswell Road, 3 reports
17 Halswell Road, 3 reports
130 Halswell Road, 3 reports
128 Halswell Road, 3 reports
122 Halswell Road, 3 reports
105 Halswell Road, 3 reports
97 Halswell Road, 2 reports
87B Halswell Road, 2 reports
83-91 Halswell Road, 2 reports
83 Halswell Road, 2 reports
51 Halswell Road, 2 reports
49A Halswell Road, 2 reports
49 Halswell Road, 2 reports
47 Halswell Road, 2 reports
21 Halswell Road, 2 reports
200 Halswell Road, 2 reports
194 Halswell Road, 2 reports
190A Halswell Road, 2 reports
178A Halswell Road, 2 reports
177 Halswell Road, 2 reports
171 Halswell Road, 2 reports
169 Halswell Road, 2 reports
162 Halswell Road, 2 reports
154 Halswell Road, 2 reports
152 Halswell Road, 2 reports

and the other 65 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 135 reports
Roads & footpaths, 96 reports
Water & drains, 82 reports
Trees & parks, 41 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 32 reports
Vehicles & parking, 15 reports
Everything else, 6 reports
Animals & pests, 5 reports

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 4 reports
2017, 4 reports
2018, 12 reports
2019, 50 reports
2020, 19 reports
2021, 23 reports
2022, 36 reports
2023, 76 reports
2024, 61 reports
2025, 59 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 95 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1862) · Papers Past, 22 Jan 1862
…lark auctioneers land and general commission agents 625 gloucester street for sale on the halswell road lincoln district a twenty-acre section of land fenced in divided into two paddocks and kid down…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 22 February 1862) · Papers Past, 22 Feb 1862
…of 30 acres ditto no 1387 of 30 acres and one block of 40 acres near the great south road halswell roada 20-acre section fenced in and all laid down with english grass with substantial house and large…
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF HEATHCOTE—CLAIMS TO VOTE.—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862) · Papers Past, 12 Apr 1862
…oad i morton i lincoln road i casterton heathcote valley i springs road i windmill road i halswell road i heathcote district i cashel street i hereford street i heathcote mill i heathcote mill i glenm…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1862) · Papers Past, 26 Apr 1862
…sirable section is situated in the forks 0 the river and is distant about a mile from the halswell road price only 10 per acre luck clark 106 gloucester street valuable property for sale two miles fro…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 30 April 1862) · Papers Past, 30 Apr 1862
…oad about six miles from christchurch price only 7 per acre a section of six acres on the halswell road fenced in and under cultivation a capital spot for a residence the lease of a mostexcellent sect…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 19 September 1868) · Papers Past, 19 Sept 1868
…nd bonded stores hereford and tuam streets christchurcb and norwich quay lyttelton c 1029 halswell road board the rate roll of the above district for tbe year 1868-69 can be seen in the district at th…
CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 24 November 1868) · Papers Past, 24 Nov 1868
…eafter to get it rectified dr foster was authorised to do as he suggested letter from the halswell road board stating in answer to enquiries respecting the proposed alteration of the market-day that t…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 05 January 1870) · Papers Past, 5 Jan 1870
…r directly opposite their stores lately burnt down in cashel street 4997 c r d sutherland halswell road board mhe annual meeting of rate l payers will he held at the school house lower lincoln eoad on…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 06 January 1870) · Papers Past, 6 Jan 1870
halswell road board the annual meeting of rate payers will be held at the school house lower lincoln road on f…
MR BLYTH'S WORKS, PREBBLETON (Star, 03 April 1871) · Papers Past, 3 Apr 1871
…and hotel the land on which the works stand is at the junction of the main road with the halswell road and opposite the hotel the first building mr blyth erected gave a workshop 20ft hy 15ft and in t…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 31 December 1873) · Papers Past, 31 Dec 1873
…ried man as gardener and groom must be able to milk reference required apply to a whincop halswell road 9420 wanted an active boy as conductor for an omnibus apply during the day at the stables armagh…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 03 January 1874) · Papers Past, 3 Jan 1874
…ried man as gardener and groom must be able to milk reference required apply to a whincop halswell road 9420 lost on wednesday last between the railway gates montreal street and tuara street a deliver…

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.

Southern Health School, Specialist School · decile 1 · EQI 569 · roll 20

The businesses on it, 6

Premises whose address in the directory is Halswell 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 open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 2 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Halswell Road in 33 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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.