Hills Road
43 reports at 20 addresses in Marshland, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 40 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Hills Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Marshland.
From the air, then
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
- 473 Hills Road, 10 reports
- 849 Hills Road, 4 reports
- 584 Hills Road, 3 reports
- 579 Hills Road, 3 reports
- 568 Hills Road, 3 reports
- 566 Hills Road, 3 reports
- 544 Hills Road, 3 reports
- 852 Hills Road, 2 reports
- 836 Hills Road, 1 report
- 829 Hills Road, 1 report
- 750 Hills Road, 1 report
- 715 Hills Road, 1 report
- 700 Hills Road, 1 report
- 680 Hills Road, 1 report
- 630 Hills Road, 1 report
- 595 Hills Road, 1 report
- 501 Hills Road, 1 report
- 483 Hills Road, 1 report
- 481 Hills Road, 1 report
- 479 Hills Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 14 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 12 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 9 reports
- Water & drains, 3 reports
- Everything else, 3 reports
- Trees & parks, 2 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 1 report
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 7 reports
- 2023, 1 report
- 2024, 16 reports
- 2025, 9 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 100 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 29 September 1858)
· Papers Past,
…epted awebb 297 5 0 no tender do metalling ferry road name of parties cashel-street hills hills road to christchurch quay to marks tendering road cashel-street the ferry thomas hughes 7s per yard 9s p…
- ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE (Lyttelton Times, 06 November 1858)
· Papers Past,
…ath road forming and metalling from heathcote to coppell 2000 widening and metalling 30c0 hills road metalling 30 current repairs of roads 800 rivers clearing avon 500 improvement of the heathcote 150…
- Provincial Council. (Lyttelton Times, 29 October 1859)
· Papers Past,
…aroa antf the peninsula the other works to be specially mentioned under this head are the hills road and the papanut and harewood koad the former has been gradually opened andnow forms an excellent ro…
- JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860)
· Papers Past,
…r street christchurch architect luxton john winsor saw mill s rangiora farmer lyons james hills road heathcote district cordwainer lyons joseph hills road heathcote district laborer maber john island…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 13 June 1860)
· Papers Past,
…thomas lower lincoln road laborer lynch john south christchuroh road laborer lyons james hills road heathcote district cord wainer lyons joseph hills road heathcote district laborer maber1 john islan…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 16 March 1861)
· Papers Past,
…comprises the rural sections nos 91 877 and 2600 and is divided into two portions by the hills road from christchurch to lyttelton the portion south of the road contains about 40 acres a considerable…
- LYTTELTON AND CHRISTCHURCH RAILWAY. (Lyttelton Times, 20 July 1861)
· Papers Past,
…ble to get across the ferry from the rush there took heart of grace and turned off to the hills road so that by the time of his honor arrival about twelve oclock the procession with some slight deviat…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 23 November 1861)
· Papers Past,
…near the head of the navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nos 245 and 91 the line of rai…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 30 November 1861)
· Papers Past,
…near the head of the navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nob 245 and 91 the line of rai…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 04 December 1861)
· Papers Past,
…near the head of the navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nos 245 and 91 the line of rai…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 11 December 1861)
· Papers Past,
…the head of the j navigation on the south bank of the river heatht cote and close to the hills road leading from i christchurch io lyttelton being parts ot rural i sections nos 245 and 91 f the line…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 14 December 1861)
· Papers Past,
…near the head ofthe navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nos 245 and 91 the line of rai…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The named ground
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 Hills Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Hills Road & Shirley Road, 59 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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.
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 06 March 1896) · Star,
- TO-DAY'S ELECTION. (Star, 06 December 1899) · Star,
- THE FIFTH CONTINGENT. (Star, 24 March 1900) · Star,
- LIST OF THE MEN SELECTED. (Star, 27 March 1900) · Star,
- THE ROLL CALL. (Otago Daily Times, 10 April 1900) · Otago Daily Times,
- TO-DAY'S ELECTIONS. (Star, 06 December 1905) · Star,
- TIMARU TO CHRISTCHURCH (Wanganui Chronicle, 01 November 1909) · Wanganui Chronicle,
- CYCLING ROAD RACE. (West Coast Times, 01 November 1909) · West Coast Times,
- CYCLING. (Hawera & Normanby Star, 01 November 1909) · Hawera & Normanby Star,
- AN OLD WOMAN'S DEATH. (Otago Daily Times 15-8-1910) · Otago Daily Times,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 18 January 1916) · Evening Post,
- ROAD RACING (Evening Post, 02 October 1923) · Evening Post,
- AMATEUR EVENT (Evening Post, 25 October 1926) · Evening Post,
- A CLOSE FINISH (Evening Post, 12 September 1927) · Evening Post,
- STIRRING FINISH (Evening Post, 07 October 1929) · Evening Post,
- CYCLE ROAD RACE (Ellesmere Guardian, 20 September 1932) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- MOTOR-CAR SMASH (Evening Post, 18 August 1934) · Evening Post,
- THE REV. F. R. INWOOD (Evening Post, 02 May 1939) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 19 January 1942) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 08 May 1943) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Overgrown Vegetation, 700 Hills Road,
- Road Signage, 849 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 680 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 544 Hills Road,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 544 Hills Rd,
- Roads - General, 473 Hills Road,
- Roads - General, 584 Hills Road,
- Road Signage, 829 Hills Rd,
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 473 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 544 Hills Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 566 Hills Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 566 Hills Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 584 Hills Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 579 Hills Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 584 Hills Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Marshland, Christchurch, New Zealand.
43 reports at 20 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (14), roads & footpaths (12), graffiti & vandalism (9).
2018, the record covers 40 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Hills Road and Shirley Road, 59 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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