Marshland Road

556 reports at 170 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 364 separate days somebody filed something about it.

556 reports 170 addresses364 days reported onfrom the air, then 22 documents carry the name 82 businessesthe 101st 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 Shirley.

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

7 Marshland Road, 31 reports
36 Marshland Road, 24 reports
220 Marshland Road, 22 reports
241 Marshland Road, 17 reports
73 Marshland Road, 14 reports
11 Marshland Road, 11 reports
69 Marshland Road, 10 reports
30 Marshland Road, 9 reports
195A Marshland Road, 9 reports
189 Marshland Road, 9 reports
140 Marshland Road, 9 reports
90 Marshland Road, 8 reports
42 Marshland Road, 8 reports
15 Marshland Road, 8 reports
116 Marshland Road, 8 reports
113 Marshland Road, 8 reports
109 Marshland Road, 8 reports
88 Marshland Road, 7 reports
61B Marshland Road, 7 reports
52K Marshland Road, 7 reports
20 Marshland Road, 7 reports
172 Marshland Road, 7 reports
108 Marshland Road, 7 reports
60A Marshland Road, 6 reports
51 Marshland Road, 6 reports
39 Marshland Road, 6 reports
199A Marshland Road, 6 reports
199 Marshland Road, 6 reports
114 Marshland Road, 6 reports
60 Marshland Road, 5 reports
29 Marshland Road, 5 reports
241F Marshland Road, 5 reports
229 Marshland Road, 5 reports
197 Marshland Road, 5 reports
19/21 Marshland Road, 5 reports
19 Marshland Road, 5 reports
176 Marshland Road, 5 reports
118 Marshland Road, 5 reports
111 Marshland Road, 5 reports
95 Marshland Road, 4 reports
7-9 Marshland Road, 4 reports
61 Marshland Road, 4 reports
46 Marshland Road, 4 reports
215 Marshland Road, 4 reports
193 Marshland Road, 4 reports
17A Marshland Road, 4 reports
147 Marshland Road, 4 reports
144 Marshland Road, 4 reports
96 Marshland Road, 3 reports
82 Marshland Road, 3 reports
74 Marshland Road, 3 reports
72 Marshland Road, 3 reports
63 Marshland Road, 3 reports
49 Marshland Road, 3 reports
18 Marshland Road, 3 reports
138 Marshland Road, 3 reports
136 Marshland Road, 3 reports
13 Marshland Road, 3 reports
115 Marshland Road, 3 reports
101 Marshland Road, 3 reports

and the other 110 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 325 reports
Roads & footpaths, 67 reports
Water & drains, 50 reports
Vehicles & parking, 43 reports
Trees & parks, 34 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 31 reports
Everything else, 9 reports
Noise, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 11 reports
2017, 6 reports
2018, 13 reports
2019, 63 reports
2020, 44 reports
2021, 35 reports
2022, 87 reports
2023, 95 reports
2024, 44 reports
2025, 85 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 civic shelf on it

Libraries, halls and the rest whose council open-data address is the street.

Shirley Library, Library

The businesses on it, 82

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

…and 70 more whose address names it.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Marshland Road in 120 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 16 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.