# The cemeteries of Christchurch

The city’s named burial grounds as the open map draws them, 32 of them. The council’s own plot register files 158,740 plots across them, the ground and the graves both.

- [Addington Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/addington-cemetery), 11,560 plots
- [Akaroa Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-anglican-cemetery), 1,274 plots · anglican
- [Akaroa Catholic Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-catholic-cemetery), 327 plots · catholic
- [Akaroa Dissenters Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-dissenters-cemetery), 226 plots
- [Akaroa French Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-french-cemetery) · 1840
- [Avonhead Memorial Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/avonhead-memorial-cemetery), 5,875 plots · 1983
- [Belfast Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/belfast-cemetery), 4,705 plots
- [Bromley Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/bromley-cemetery), 29,031 plots · 1918
- [Burwood Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/burwood-anglican-cemetery)
- [Diamond Harbour Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/diamond-harbour-cemetery), 436 plots · 2002
- [Harewood Crematorium and Memorial Gardens](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/harewood-crematorium-and-memorial-gardens)
- [Kaituna Valley Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/kaituna-valley-cemetery), 101 plots · 1935
- [Le Bons Bay Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/le-bons-bay-cemetery), 223 plots
- [Leper graves](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/leper-graves)
- [Linwood Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/linwood-cemetery), 19,579 plots · 1884
- [Little River Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/little-river-cemetery), 1,357 plots
- [Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-anglican-cemetery), 2,607 plots · anglican · 1850
- [Lyttelton Catholic and Public Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-catholic-and-public-cemetery), 2,449 plots · catholic · 1873
- [Memorial Park Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/memorial-park-cemetery), 12,802 plots · 1956
- [Mount Magdala Cemetery of the Good Shepherd Sisters](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/mount-magdala-cemetery-of-the-good-shepherd-sisters)
- [Okains Bay Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/okains-bay-cemetery) · 1869
- [Papanui Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/papanui-cemetery)
- [Rapaki Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rapaki-cemetery)
- [Rapaki Church Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rapaki-church-cemetery)
- [Ruru Lawn Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/ruru-lawn-cemetery), 31,242 plots · 1941
- [Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rutherford-street-woolston-cemetery), 1,873 plots
- [Sydenham Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/sydenham-cemetery), 15,641 plots · 1896
- [Under the Rata Memorial Garden](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/under-the-rata-memorial-garden)
- [Waimairi Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/waimairi-cemetery), 14,239 plots · 1909
- [Wainui Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/wainui-cemetery), 316 plots
- [Wairewa Urupā](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/wairewa-urupa)
- [Yaldhurst Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/yaldhurst-cemetery), 2,877 plots · 1887


## 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.


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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.
The monuments: https://www.chch.live/memorial
The grounds as data: https://www.chch.live/memorials.geojson