# Avonhead Memorial Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch A cemetery of the city, lying in Avonhead, the ground as the open map draws it. Dated: 1983 Suburb: [Avonhead](https://www.chch.live/avonhead) From the air, an aerial view of Avonhead Memorial Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-avonhead-memorial-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0). ## The register of plots The council’s cemetery register files 5,884 plots in this ground, 4,720 marked occupied. Dates in this range are burial dates where recorded, otherwise dates of death: 1944 to 2026. 9 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/avonhead-memorial-cemetery ## The ground under it - [The liquefaction model grades it “Low Liquefaction Vulnerability”](https://www.chch.live/vulnerability), the 2019 screening study - [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), 20 March 2011 · 1.4 km from the pin · 14 logged within 5 km The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.508843&lon=172.547688&radius=250 ## Around it - [Avonhead Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-66), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 110 m away - [Avonhead Park](https://www.chch.live/park/980-avonhead-park), sports ground park · under 150 m - [Merrin Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/917-merrin-reserve), community park · ~300 m - [Waimairi Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/waimairi-cemetery), cemetery · 2.6 km - [Under the Rata Memorial Garden](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/under-the-rata-memorial-garden), cemetery · 2.7 km - [Papanui Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/papanui-cemetery), cemetery · 4.9 km - [Yaldhurst Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/yaldhurst-cemetery), cemetery · 5.8 km ## The reports nearby 448 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place. - [Rubbish and Bins - General](https://www.chch.live/report/9042547), [71 Kedleston Dr, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/71-kedleston-drive) - [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/9041247), [146 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/146-hawthornden-road) - [Rubbish and Bins - General](https://www.chch.live/report/9036251), Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand - [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/9027255), [146 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/146-hawthornden-road) - [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/9027127), [146 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/146-hawthornden-road) - [Rubbish and Bins - General](https://www.chch.live/report/9027114), [146 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/146-hawthornden-road) - [Pavement - Damaged](https://www.chch.live/report/9022872), [152 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/152-hawthornden-road) - [Trees - General](https://www.chch.live/report/9013885), [140 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/140-hawthornden-road) - [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/9007056), [146 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/146-hawthornden-road) - [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/9005050), [140 Hawthornden Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/140-hawthornden-road) - [Public Toilet](https://www.chch.live/report/8993884), [146 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/146-hawthornden-road) - [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/8974026), [146 Hawthornden Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/avonhead/146-hawthornden-road) ## Questions, answered briefly **Where is Avonhead Memorial Cemetery?** In Avonhead, Christchurch, the map draws its grounds as an outline, inside the city boundary. **What kind of cemetery is Avonhead Memorial Cemetery?** The map tags it none, a mapper’s tag, not the council’s register. **Does this page list who is buried there?** Partly, the council’s register files 5,884 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. --- 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/avonhead-memorial-cemetery The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial