Hills Road
28 reports at 7 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2018, the latest 2025. 26 separate days somebody filed something about it.
28 reports7 addresses26 days reported onfrom the air, then100 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 2046th 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 Hills Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Richmond.
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
- 20B Hills Road, 15 reports
- 20a Hills Road, 4 reports
- 128 Hills Road, 3 reports
- 2 Hills Road, 2 reports
- 120 Hills Road, 2 reports
- 20 Hills Road, 1 report
- 171 Hills Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 26 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 2 reports
- 2020, 1 report
- 2022, 9 reports
- 2023, 5 reports
- 2024, 5 reports
- 2025, 5 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…
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The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Hills 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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Hills Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
- Page 11 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Lyttelton Times,
- LINWOOD (Star, 04 July 1887) · Star,
- LINWOOD (Star, 05 July 1887) · Star,
- PUPIL TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. (Star, 05 February 1891) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 30 January 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 02 February 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 06 February 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 09 February 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 23 February 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 27 February 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 09 March 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 20 March 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 23 March 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 30 March 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 13 April 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 18 April 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY BOARD. (Star, 06 June 1907) · Star,
- CYCLE ROAD RACE. (Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 October 1914) · Wairarapa Daily Times,
- CYCLING. (Hawera & Normanby Star, 26 October 1914) · Hawera & Normanby Star,
- CYCLING (Evening Post, 26 October 1914) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 120 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 128 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 128 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 20B Hills Road,
- Vandalism - General, 128 Hills Road,
- Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti, 20B Hills Road,
- Graffiti, 20 Hills Road,
Questions, answered briefly
Where is Hills Road?
In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.
What gets reported on Hills Road?
28 reports at 7 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (26), rubbish & dumping (1), roads & footpaths (1).
When was Hills Road first reported on?
2018, the record covers 26 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
What is the busiest corner on Hills Road?
Hills Road and Shirley Road, 59 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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