Yaldhurst Road

390 reports at 140 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 305 separate days somebody filed something about it.

390 reports 140 addresses305 days reported onfrom the air, then 36 documents carry the name 21 businessesthe 151st 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 Yaldhurst Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sockburn.

From the air, then

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

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

Yaldhurst 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

103 Yaldhurst Road, 15 reports
37 Yaldhurst Road, 13 reports
14 Yaldhurst Road, 13 reports
160 Yaldhurst Road, 8 reports
140 Yaldhurst Road, 8 reports
122A Yaldhurst Road, 8 reports
110 Yaldhurst Road, 8 reports
91 Yaldhurst Road, 7 reports
170A Yaldhurst Road, 7 reports
121 Yaldhurst Road, 7 reports
69 Yaldhurst Road, 6 reports
41 Yaldhurst Road, 6 reports
148/150 Yaldhurst Road, 6 reports
1/34 Yaldhurst Road, 6 reports
98 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
87 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
79 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
75E Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
23 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
180e Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
161 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
158 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
133 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
128A Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
12 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
105 Yaldhurst Road, 5 reports
89 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
69B Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
61 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
6 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
55 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
31 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
168 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
163 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
153 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
14A Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
147 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
113 Yaldhurst Road, 4 reports
95 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
81 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
80 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
57 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
34 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
30 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
186 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
166 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
161a Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
159 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
149 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
146 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
142 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
132A Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
125 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
118 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
110A Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
104 Yaldhurst Road, 3 reports
99 Yaldhurst Road, 2 reports
92 Yaldhurst Road, 2 reports
83 Yaldhurst Road, 2 reports
8 Yaldhurst Road, 2 reports

and the other 80 the record names

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 112 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 89 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 81 reports
Water & drains, 44 reports
Trees & parks, 37 reports
Vehicles & parking, 22 reports
Everything else, 4 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 1 report
2017, 15 reports
2018, 8 reports
2019, 12 reports
2020, 16 reports
2021, 9 reports
2022, 42 reports
2023, 87 reports
2024, 61 reports
2025, 79 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 36 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

NOTES BY BEACON. (Otago Witness, 05 August 1887) · Papers Past, 5 Aug 1887
…steeplechase took place at yaldhurst oh saturday last a christchurch paper says that the yaldhurst road was crowded by persons anxious to obtain a view of the steeplechase which was organised by memb…
ROAD BOARDS. (Star, 10 September 1896) · Papers Past, 10 Sept 1896
…reference to drainage at riccarton church corner viz to construct an open crossing on the yaldhurst road opposite the parsonage grounds and to take up and re-lay culvert at the corner that the questio…
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 29 June 1906) · Papers Past, 29 Jun 1906
…nt 3 h drumy mo-nd was fined 10s and ootcffor riding b motor-cycle tn the footpath of the yaldhurst road henry deacon rayner on several charges of technical j theft in the misappropriation of lodge mo…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 16 January 1909) · Papers Past, 16 Jan 1909
…nt to trams near cashmere hills splendid rivet frontage remarkably cheap at 85 easy terms yaldhurst road v opposite ricoarton racecourse j 3 acres at bs per acre partly in oata and potatoes this is th…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 26 June 1909) · Papers Past, 26 Jun 1909
…at upper riccarton a first-class section of aout 3j a c r e s price per acre sitnated on yaldhurst road opposite ihe racecourse about 10 minutes walk from electrio tram w j hopkins and co agenta nat…
THE MOTOR-CAR FATALITY. (Star, 02 November 1909) · Papers Past, 2 Nov 1909
…that on the afternoon of october 13 he and his wife were at the junction of riccarton and yaldhurst roads waiting for a tram the time would be four oclock he did not know accused but he remembered a m…
CHRISTCHURCH DAY BY DAY. (Ashburton Guardian, 18 April 1913) · Papers Past, 18 Apr 1913
…s has now been done and riccarton possesses a domain of about seven acres fronting on the yaldhurst road past church corner the money was raised by a bazaar by subscriptions and by a grant from the wa…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Otago Daily Times 25-6-1917) · Papers Past, 25 Jun 1917
…SER, ALFRED HUGH (J. Fraser, Malby avenue, Tiniaru). FRANKS, GEO. ALFD. (Mrs S. E. Clark, Yaldhurst road. Christchurch, cousin). GAFFNEY, i?ATK. JOHN (Mrs J. Gaffney, Waimate, mother). GAUDIN, CJiCIL…
KNOCKED DOWN SY MOTOR CAR. (Ashburton Guardian, 31 May 1919) · Papers Past, 31 May 1919
…the southbridge sawniilling vjompany was knocked down hist evening by a motor-car on the yaldhurst road about a mile on the christchurch side of the yaldhurst hotel mr wm logan farmer of rakaia gorge…
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Ashburton Guardian, 18 August 1921) · Papers Past, 18 Aug 1921
…i-cab containing a party of six while motoring from yaldhurst collided with a dray on the yaldhurst road one of the members of the motoring party received a broken arm and other injuries causing his r…
BODY IDENTIFIED (Evening Post, 09 November 1926) · Papers Past, 9 Nov 1926
…n christchurch bth november the woman killed in the motor accident on saturday evening on yaldhurst road has been identified john ashby of geraldinc saw photos vf the three year-old boy in the newspap…
CHRISTCHURCH MOTORING FATALITY (Evening Post, 10 November 1926) · Papers Past, 10 Nov 1926
…hurch police state that the real name of the woman victim of the fatal motor smash ou the yaldhurst road was not mrs reed but mrs evelyn blanch hildebrand aged 37 of darfield she had been living apart…

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

The businesses on it, 21

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

…and 9 more whose address names it.

The named ground

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

Upper Riccarton Domain ramp · 58 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Yaldhurst Road in 39 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 5 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Curletts Road & Yaldhurst Road, 36 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 killed.

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.