Antigua Boat Sheds
Antigua Boat Sheds is a canoe hire business at 2 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch Central City.
Checked 25 Oct 2026
Come and experience a slice of Christchurch's history at the 125-year-old Antigua Boat Sheds and Café on the Avon River.… Read full description ↓
Sits inside Antigua Boatsheds and Setting, highly significant in the District Plan · Has a Wikipedia entry
The only canoe hire business on the Christchurch record · The only heritage-listed canoe hire business on the record
2 Cambridge Terrace
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Nearby
More nearby places 7
Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Maps Parks layer, refreshed 2026-10-10. Distances are straight-line from the business pin, not walking routes.
Also in Christchurch Central City
More businesses in Christchurch Central City 7
What the record holds 10 sourced facts
What the record holds
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Address | 2 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch 8013 | OpenStreetMap |
| Kind | Canoe Hire | OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +64 3 366 6768 | OpenStreetMap |
| Website | boatsheds.co.nz · unreachable when last read 29 Sept 2026 | OpenStreetMap |
| kitchen@boatsheds.co.nz | Find Christchurch, 2024 | |
| NZBN | 9429031901444, NZ Limited Company, removed | NZBN register |
| Registered name | ANTIGUA BOAT SHEDS LIMITED | NZBN register |
| Registered since | 7 Oct 1969 | NZBN register |
| Dates from | 1883 | Wikidata |
| Encyclopaedia | Antigua Boat Sheds, Wikipedia | Wikidata |
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How the council’s directory described it
Read the full description council directory, about 2024
Come and experience a slice of Christchurch's history at the 125-year-old Antigua Boat Sheds and Café on the Avon River. Relax in the fully-licensed café which offers breakfast and brunch. This eatery is completely smokefree - this includes their outdoor dining area. Support them in their goal of making Christchurch smokefree! Dog friendly. Open 7 days
— Find Christchurch, 2024. The business’s own words from about 2024, repeated as a lead, not checked.
The ground it stands on
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| District Plan zone | Avon River Precinct (Te Papa Otakaro) | District Plan |
| Heritage item | Antigua Boatsheds and Setting (Heritage NZ category 1), highly significant in the District Plan | District Plan |
What stood on Cambridge Terrace
From Canterbury Stories. This photograph names the street, not this business. The street page pairs it with a Street View pose verified outside Westend Stories, 2025-03. The street’s then and now →
The reports nearby
3,246 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 2,644 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
The 3,246 reports on file
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Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
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A canoe hire business in Christchurch Central City, Christchurch.
2 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch Central City, on Cambridge Terrace. On the map →
On OpenStreetMap and in the council’s 2024 directory.
phone 03 366 6768, its website, email kitchen@boatsheds.co.nz (Find Christchurch, 2024).
the address’s own record holds 253 reports; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Boat Shed Cafe (10 m); the Christchurch Hospital Main Stop EB bus stop is 156 m away: routes 3, 5, 7, 60, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 91, 92; a shared path passes the door; nearest park: Nurses Memorial Chapel (310 m).
The record behind this
This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:
Sources: OpenStreetMap · Find Christchurch · Christchurch District Plan layers · Christchurch City Council off-street parking layer (CC BY 4.0) · Wikidata · Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record · Christchurch City Council’s cycleway layer · New Zealand Business Number register
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- OpenStreetMap, named premises drawn and kept current by its contributors (ODbL)
- Find Christchurch, the council’s business directory, a snapshot last touched about March 2024 (CC BY 4.0)
- Christchurch District Plan layers, zones, commercial centres and scheduled heritage items, from the council’s open data (CC BY 4.0)
- Christchurch City Council off-street parking layer (CC BY 4.0),
- Wikidata, the item an OpenStreetMap mapper linked the premises to (CC0)
- Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record, distances measured here from the pin
- Christchurch City Council’s cycleway layer, lanes, separated paths and the named Major Cycle Routes (CC BY 4.0)
- New Zealand Business Number register, the public facts every NZBN entity files (legal name, status, registration date, industry), matched here by name and address
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