Marshland Road

176 reports at 54 addresses in Marshland, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 152 separate days somebody filed something about it.

176 reports 54 addresses152 days reported onfrom the air, then 22 documents carry the name 12 businessesthe 430th 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 Marshland Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Marshland.

From the air, then

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

Marshland Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

Marshland 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

Roads & footpaths, 59 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 51 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 30 reports
Trees & parks, 28 reports
Water & drains, 4 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Vehicles & parking, 1 report

Year by year

2016, 1 report
2017, 1 report
2018, 1 report
2019, 18 reports
2020, 8 reports
2021, 10 reports
2022, 17 reports
2023, 14 reports
2024, 22 reports
2025, 49 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 22 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 30 September 1905) · Papers Past, 30 Sept 1905
…for coun try good general for hawarden inn xnediateiy bliss 1 registry 3888 wanted known marshland road race had on oct 7th entries close oct 5 adams saor cycle co high street 3491 w anted pupils for…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Otago Daily Times 14-10-1916) · Papers Past, 14 Oct 1916
…ce-corporal (Mr G. Willis. Sheffield, North Canterbury). COX, ROBT. GEO. (Mr Geo. Cox, 55 Marshland road, Christchurch). LINTOTT, KEITH, I uce-corporal (Mr A. F. Lintott, 1 WoLjey road, Ernoombe, Surr…
DAIRY FARMER KILLED. (Ashburton Guardian, 08 March 1919) · Papers Past, 8 Mar 1919
dairy farmer killed christchurch march 8 mr david johnston a dairy farmer of marshland road shirley was killed yesterday while harnessing a rather spirited horse the animal breaking away…
Chisnall family portrait · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
Portrait of Lance Guthrie, Rosina and Roger Lancelot Chisnall (baby) at 359 Marshland Road. Smyth family collection…
Unidentified man in a row boat · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
View of an unidentified man in a row boat, rowing down Marshland Road during the November 1926 flood. 2023 Photo Hunt…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 6 (Evening Post, 08 February 1923) · Papers Past, 8 Feb 1923
…120 chester street christchurch 21 mrs linton 7 melrose street christchurch 22 mrs stead marshland road ouruhuia christchurch 23 mrs w a howell 12 cummer terrace eadley woolston 2 mrs e stiven wallae…
Marshland Catholic Church · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1927
Exterior of Marshland Catholic Church at 423 Marshland Road, near the corner with Preston's Road in Marshland. Between The Waters - Polish Legacy in New Z…
COLLISIONS END FATALLY (Evening Post, 05 May 1928) · Papers Past, 5 May 1928
…he christchurch hospital yesterday john joseph rock an old-age pensioner who lived at 221 marshland road was crossing tho road near his home at 7 pm on 9th april when he was hit by a motor-car he died…
BAD CROSSINGS (Evening Post, 09 February 1937) · Papers Past, 9 Feb 1937
…minister of public works the hon r semple today they are the main south road at ashburton marshland road at chaneys the main south road at chertseyi the main sbuth road at hornby the main north road a…
CYCLIST'S DEATH (Evening Post, 08 April 1938) · Papers Past, 8 Apr 1938
…lding contractor will tandvtiial in the supreme court on a charge of negligent driving in marshland road on february 24 thereby causing the death of a cyclistjosephquinn police evidence bn the chajge…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 08 May 1943) · Papers Past, 8 May 1943
…pl mrs e m jameson nuklwai rotherham m died of sickness tomlix raymond j pte mr p free 18 marshland road marshland friend prisoner of warpreviously reported missing mcq carrie lan m mjl pte mrs f j mc…
REGISTER · New Zealand Gazette, 22 Aug 2000
…rmacy (1996) Limited Unit 26-27, Downtown Plaza, Cnr Ward Street & Worley Place, HAMILTON Marshland Road Pharmacy Limited 20 Marshland Road, Shirley, CHRISTCHURCH Marton Pharmacy Limited 266 Broadway,…

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

The businesses on it, 12

Premises whose address in the directory is Marshland 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.

Styx River stream · 66 m away Kā Pūtahi stream · 68 m away Janet Stewart Reserve road bridge · 62 m away Janet Stewart Reserve road bridge · 78 m away Janet Stewart Reserve viewing platform · 147 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Marshland Road in 202 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 people killed, 49 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Marshland Road & Prestons Road, 184 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.