# Bromley Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

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

Dated: 1918

Suburb: [Bromley](https://www.chch.live/bromley)

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

## The register of plots

The council’s cemetery register files 29,031 plots in this ground, 28,159 marked occupied.
Filed burials run 1826 to 2026.
21,698 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/bromley-cemetery

## The ground under it

- [The liquefaction model grades it “Medium 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), 26 February 2011 · ~150 m from the pin · 378 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.538522&lon=172.685988&radius=250

## Around it

- [Bromley Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-70), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 15 m away
- [Cypress Garden Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/953-cypress-garden-reserve), sports ground park · ~150 m
- [Bromley Old School Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1142-bromley-old-school-reserve), community park · ~350 m
- [Walk and bike track through Bromley](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-101-bromley), track · ~250 m
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-111-woolston), track · ~300 m
- [Walk and bike track through Phillipstown](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-94-phillipstown), track · ~850 m
- [Ruru Lawn Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/ruru-lawn-cemetery), cemetery · ~650 m
- [Linwood Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/linwood-cemetery), cemetery · ~850 m
- [Memorial Park Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/memorial-park-cemetery), cemetery · ~950 m
- [Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rutherford-street-woolston-cemetery), cemetery · 2.0 km


## The reports nearby
450 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place.
- [Facility - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/9053427), Canterbury, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand
- [Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet](https://www.chch.live/report/8948911), [41 Keighleys Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/41-keighleys-road)
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/8868436), [2 Bromley Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/2-bromley-road)
- [Fallen Tree](https://www.chch.live/report/8806528), Linwood Avenue, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand
- [Public Toilet](https://www.chch.live/report/8780944), [41 Keighleys Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/41-keighleys-road)
- [Damaged Street Sign](https://www.chch.live/report/8777338), [39 Keighleys Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/39-keighleys-road)
- [Facility - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8728829), [8P Bromley Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/8p-bromley-road)
- [Trees - General](https://www.chch.live/report/8697804), [41 Keighleys Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/41-keighleys-road)
- [Abandoned Vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8679929), [41 Keighleys Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/41-keighleys-road)
- [Abandoned Vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8565346), [41 Keighleys Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/41-keighleys-road)
- [Hazard, vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8547716), [5 Ormandy Place, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/5-ormandy-place)
- [Abandoned Vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8538870), [4a Bromley Road, Bromley, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/bromley/4a-bromley-road)

## Questions, answered briefly

**Where is Bromley Cemetery?**

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

**What kind of cemetery is Bromley 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 29,031 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 or way 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/bromley-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial
