Prestons Road

178 reports at 48 addresses in Marshland, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 163 separate days somebody filed something about it.

178 reports 48 addresses163 days reported on1 on the register from the air, then 4 documents carry the name 10 businessesthe 391st 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 Prestons Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Marshland.

From the air, then

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

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

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

Prestons 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

Trees & parks, 61 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 42 reports
Roads & footpaths, 32 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 23 reports
Water & drains, 11 reports
Everything else, 7 reports
Animals & pests, 2 reports

Year by year

2016, 3 reports
2017, 4 reports
2018, 6 reports
2019, 10 reports
2020, 4 reports
2021, 9 reports
2022, 28 reports
2023, 36 reports
2024, 31 reports
2025, 24 reports

On the register

St Mark's Church and Setting, 340 Prestons Road

In the written record

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

TRAIN AND TRUCK (Evening Post, 23 February 1935) · Papers Past, 23 Feb 1935
…hill road mairehau received headand arminjuries and concussion and alex gibbs married of prestons road mairehau head and shoulder injuries moonlight was admitted to hospital his condition being satis…
WgC8436 · Air Force Museum of New Zealand Photograph Collection, 5 Dec 1943
…road centre top is Hills road and the straight road running from mid-left to mid-right is Prestons Road. Air Force Museum of New Zealand Photograph Collection…
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 17 Apr 2014
…ITED.307 WILLIS STREET LIMITED.349 FREDERICK INVESTMENTS LIMITED.360 SOFTWARE LIMITED.365 PRESTONS ROAD LIMITED.37FORUS LIMITED.38 GRACEFIELD LIMITED.3D CREATIVE WAIRARAPA LIMITED.3KA SHELF COMPANY 3…
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 13 Apr 2017
…TEES LIMITED.360VISIONNZ LIMITED.365 WEST COAST ROAD LIMITED.37 DARVEL STREET LIMITED.379 PRESTONS ROAD LIMITED.3D TRAILERS LIMITED.4 ART SAKE (2010) LIMITED.4 WHEELER IMPORTER NZ LIMITED.5 C’S LIMITE…

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

The businesses on it, 10

Premises whose address in the directory is Prestons Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Marshland Domain ramp · 7 m away Marshland Domain ramp · 42 m away Korowai 1 Drainage Reserve footbridge · 49 m away Korowai 1 Drainage Reserve set of steps · 49 m away Korowai 1 Drainage Reserve boardwalk · 54 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Prestons Road in 94 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 20 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.