Taylors Mistake Road

99 reports at 26 addresses in te-onepoto-taylors-mistake, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 84 separate days somebody filed something about it.

99 reports 26 addresses84 days reported onfrom the air, then 5 documents carry the namethe 840th 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 te-onepoto-taylors-mistake.

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, 32 reports
Water & drains, 30 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 10 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 10 reports
Roads & footpaths, 9 reports
Everything else, 5 reports
Animals & pests, 2 reports
Vehicles & parking, 1 report

Year by year

2021, 12 reports
2022, 15 reports
2023, 31 reports
2024, 27 reports
2025, 9 reports

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.