Taylors Mistake Road

12 reports at 7 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2016, the latest 2025. 11 separate days somebody filed something about it.

12 reports 7 addresses11 days reported onfrom the air, then 5 documents carry the namethe 3157th 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 Taylors Mistake Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sumner.

From the air, then

Taylors Mistake Road from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

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

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

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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, 7 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2016, 1 report
2019, 5 reports
2020, 3 reports
2021, 1 report
2024, 1 report
2025, 1 report

In the written record

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

In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 5 Oct 2000
…Rata Street, Naenae, Lower Hutt. Stick, Nicholas John, occupation unknown, formerly of19 Taylors Mistake Road, and 10 St John Street, nowof 10 Albert Terrace, St Martins, Christchurch. Houkamau, Cher…
137 Taylors Mistake Road · Canterbury Stories, 15 Oct 2005
The house at 137 Taylors Mistake Road as seen from the Scarborough Bluffs Track, which overlooks Taylors Mistake. Greg O’Beirn…
Bankruptcies · New Zealand Gazette, 2 Feb 2012
…Gahey Street, Rothwell, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia - 26 January 2012.Lowen, Dax, 80 Taylors Mistake Road, Sumner, Christchurch - 24 January 2012.McKay, Andrew Rutherford, No 42 JL Kemang Utara,…
Notice of Intention to Restore Companies to the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 19 Apr 2012
…Avondale, Auckland 0600.ORTON & ASSOCIATES LIMITED. Applicant: David Orton Bradley, 113B Taylors Mistake Road, Christchurch 8081.P R B HOLDINGS LIMITED. Applicant: Paul Robert Benjamin, 107 Larnach R…
Bankruptcies · New Zealand Gazette, 19 Feb 2015
…9 The Arte, 23 Jalan Raja Udang, Singapore – 4 February 2015. Scurr, Stephen Bernard, 185 Taylors Mistake Road, Taylors Mistake, Christchurch – 9 February 2015. Shortland, Kentucky Jones, 3226 Pipiwai…

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

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Taylor's Mistake Beach beach · 9 m away Taylors Mistake Beach footbridge · 41 m away Taylors Mistake Beach footbridge · 47 m away Taylors Mistake Beach footbridge · 71 m away Taylors Mistake Beach footbridge · 85 m away Taylors Mistake Beach footbridge · 113 m away

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.