# Addington Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

A cemetery of the city, lying in Addington, the ground as the open map draws it.

Suburb: [Addington](https://www.chch.live/addington)

From the air, an aerial view of Addington Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-addington-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## On the register nearby

- [Addington Cemetery and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/309), 410 Selwyn Street
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/218), 391 Selwyn Street · List 3699
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/217), 389 Selwyn Street · List 3700
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/216), 383 Selwyn Street · List 3698

## The register of plots

The council’s cemetery register files 11,560 plots in this ground, 10,439 marked occupied.
Filed burials run 1858 to 2023.
10,181 of the named records sit seventy years back or more, the only ones this site names. Newer burials count; they do not list.

Find a plot by surname on the page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/addington-cemetery

## The ground under it

- [The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction), mapped ground failure, a footprint, not a finding
- [The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability”](https://www.chch.live/vulnerability), the 2019 screening study
- [Inside a listed place’s setting](https://www.chch.live/heritage), Addington Cemetery and Setting
- [The plan zones this ground Specific Purpose (Cemetery)](https://www.chch.live/zones), SPC
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.1](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 26 December 2010 · under 150 m from the pin · 280 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.543527&lon=172.623752&radius=250

## Around it

- [Addington Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/park/1634-addington-cemetery), the botanic park it’s inside
- [Disraeli Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1147-disraeli-reserve), community park · under 150 m
- [Walk and bike track through Addington](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-432-addington), track · ~200 m
- [Walk and bike track through Sydenham](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-441-sydenham), track · ~400 m
- [Sydenham Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/sydenham-cemetery), cemetery · 1.6 km
- [Barbadoes Street Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/barbadoes-street-cemetery), cemetery · 2.9 km
- [Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rutherford-street-woolston-cemetery), cemetery · 4.9 km
- [Linwood Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/linwood-cemetery), cemetery · 5.0 km


## The reports nearby
1,335 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place.
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/9092818), [49 Disraeli Street, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/49-disraeli-street)
- [Damaged Street Sign](https://www.chch.live/report/9083649), [424 Selwyn St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/424-selwyn-street)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/9055785), [29 Braddon Street, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/29-braddon-street)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/9026697), [116 Poulson St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/116-poulson-street)
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/9025717), [33 Fairfield Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/33-fairfield-avenue)
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/9024084), [52B Burke Street, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/52b-burke-street)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/9018762), [120 Poulson St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/120-poulson-street)
- [Hazard, vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/9013446), [37 Disraeli Street, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/37-disraeli-street)
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/9011262), [13 Braddon St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/13-braddon-street)
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/9005235), [410 Selwyn St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/410-selwyn-street)
- [Accessibility](https://www.chch.live/report/8981380), [66 Fairfield Avenue, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/66-fairfield-avenue)
- [Accessibility](https://www.chch.live/report/8957370), [64 Fairfield Avenue, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/addington/64-fairfield-avenue)

## Questions, answered briefly

**Where is Addington Cemetery?**

In Addington, Christchurch, the map draws its grounds as an outline, inside the city boundary.

**What’s on the register near Addington Cemetery?**

4 listed places within 300m, each opens its own record from this page.

**Does this page list who is buried there?**

Partly, the council’s register files 11,560 plots in this ground, and burials seventy years gone or older can be found by surname on this page. Newer burials are counted but never named here; the council’s own cemetery search holds the whole register.


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The ground is OpenStreetMap’s, a named node, way or relation tagged landuse=cemetery inside the city boundary (ODbL). The ground is the map’s; the graves are the council’s, the register of plots is their Green Assets layer (gmCemeteryPlot), names included only where the death is seventy years gone or more.
The page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/addington-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial
