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The cemeteries

The city’s named burial grounds as the open map draws them, 32 of them, from the early plots on Barbadoes Street to the big lawns at the edge of town. The council’s own register files 158,740 plots across them, the ground and the graves both.

Named grounds
32
Drawn as outlines
32
Plots on the register
158,740
The first
Barbadoes St, 1851

What the record says

Where they lie

Addington CemeteryAkaroa Anglican CemeteryAvonhead Memorial CemeteryBelfast CemeteryBromley CemeteryBurwood Anglican CemeteryHarewood Crematorium and Memorial GardensLe Bons Bay CemeteryLinwood CemeteryLittle River CemeteryLyttelton Anglican CemeteryLyttelton Catholic and Public CemeteryMemorial Park CemeteryPapanui CemeteryRuru Lawn CemeteryRutherford Street (Woolston) CemeterySydenham CemeteryWaimairi CemeteryWainui CemeteryWairewa UrupāYaldhurst CemeteryAddington Cemetery, cemeteryAkaroa Anglican Cemetery, cemeteryAkaroa Catholic Cemetery, cemeteryAkaroa Dissenters Cemetery, cemeteryAkaroa French Cemetery, cemeteryAvonhead Memorial Cemetery, cemeteryBelfast Cemetery, cemeteryBromley Cemetery, cemeteryBurwood Anglican Cemetery, cemeteryDiamond Harbour Cemetery, cemeteryHarewood Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, cemeteryKaituna Valley Cemetery, cemeteryLe Bons Bay Cemetery, cemeteryLeper graves, cemeteryLinwood Cemetery, cemeteryLittle River Cemetery, cemeteryLyttelton Anglican Cemetery, cemeteryLyttelton Catholic and Public Cemetery, cemeteryMemorial Park Cemetery, cemeteryMount Magdala Cemetery of the Good Shepherd Sisters, cemeteryOkains Bay Cemetery, cemeteryPapanui Cemetery, cemeteryRapaki Cemetery, cemeteryRapaki Church Cemetery, cemeteryRuru Lawn Cemetery, cemeteryRutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery, cemeterySydenham Cemetery, cemeteryUnder the Rata Memorial Garden, cemeteryWaimairi Cemetery, cemeteryWainui Cemetery, cemeteryWairewa Urupā, cemeteryYaldhurst Cemetery, cemetery

OpenStreetMap’s own pins and outlines, an outline is the mapper’s draw of the grounds, not the surveyed title.

The grounds

Addington Cemetery cemetery · 11,560 plots on the register Akaroa Anglican Cemetery cemetery · 1,274 plots on the register · anglican Akaroa Catholic Cemetery cemetery · 327 plots on the register · catholic Akaroa Dissenters Cemetery cemetery · 226 plots on the register Akaroa French Cemetery cemetery · 1840 Avonhead Memorial Cemetery cemetery · 5,875 plots on the register · 1983 Belfast Cemetery cemetery · 4,705 plots on the register Bromley Cemetery cemetery · 29,031 plots on the register · 1918 Burwood Anglican Cemetery cemetery Diamond Harbour Cemetery cemetery · 436 plots on the register · 2002 Harewood Crematorium and Memorial Gardens cemetery Kaituna Valley Cemetery cemetery · 101 plots on the register · 1935 Le Bons Bay Cemetery cemetery · 223 plots on the register Leper graves cemetery Linwood Cemetery cemetery · 19,579 plots on the register · 1884 Little River Cemetery cemetery · 1,357 plots on the register Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery cemetery · 2,607 plots on the register · anglican · 1850 Lyttelton Catholic and Public Cemetery cemetery · 2,449 plots on the register · catholic · 1873 Memorial Park Cemetery cemetery · 12,802 plots on the register · 1956 Mount Magdala Cemetery of the Good Shepherd Sisters cemetery Okains Bay Cemetery cemetery · 1869 Papanui Cemetery cemetery Rapaki Cemetery cemetery Rapaki Church Cemetery Rapaki Urupā cemetery Ruru Lawn Cemetery cemetery · 31,242 plots on the register · 1941 Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery cemetery · 1,873 plots on the register Sydenham Cemetery cemetery · 15,641 plots on the register · 1896 Under the Rata Memorial Garden cemetery Waimairi Cemetery cemetery · 14,239 plots on the register · 1909 Wainui Cemetery cemetery · 316 plots on the register Wairewa Urupā cemetery Yaldhurst Cemetery cemetery · 2,877 plots on the register · 1887

Find a plot

The council’s own register of burials, 74,496 of its 158,740 filed plots are old enough to name here: deaths at least seventy years back. Newer burials count on each ground’s page; the council’s own cemetery search holds the whole register.

    Questions, answered briefly

    How many cemeteries does Christchurch have?

    32 named grounds on the open map, from the early Barbadoes Street plots to the big lawn cemeteries on the edge of town.

    Which is the oldest cemetery in Christchurch?

    Barbadoes Street, opened 1851, the city’s first public cemetery. The map draws the grounds; the burials themselves are the council’s records, not this map.

    Where does the cemetery map come from?

    OpenStreetMap: named grounds tagged landuse=cemetery inside the city boundary (ODbL). An outline is the mapper’s draw of the grounds, not the surveyed title.

    The record behind this

    Named grounds tagged landuse=cemetery on OpenStreetMap, inside the city boundary (ODbL). The map records the ground; the graves are the council’s Green Assets plot register, joined to each ground by where its plots lie: names shown only seventy years gone or older.

    This page as markdown: /cemetery.md · the monuments: /memorial · the grounds as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · every roll, counted: /geography.