# Linwood Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch A cemetery of the city, lying in Linwood, the ground as the open map draws it. Dated: 1884 Suburb: [Linwood](https://www.chch.live/linwood) From the air, an aerial view of Linwood Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-linwood-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0). ## On the register nearby - [Linwood Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/place/505) ## The register of plots The council’s cemetery register files 19,579 plots in this ground, 18,511 marked occupied. Filed burials run 1881 to 2026. 16,828 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/linwood-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), Linwood Cemetery - [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), 6 September 2012 · ~200 m from the pin · 292 logged within 5 km The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.531012&lon=172.683026&radius=250 ## Around it - [Linwood Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-79), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 52 m away - [Bromley Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1119-bromley-park), sports ground park · ~250 m - [Merrilees Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1544-merrilees-reserve), community park · ~300 m - [Walk and bike track through Linwood](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-99-linwood), track · ~400 m - [Walk and bike track through Wainoni](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-114-wainoni), track · ~450 m - [Walk and bike track through Bromley](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-101-bromley), track · ~750 m - [Memorial Park Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/memorial-park-cemetery), cemetery · ~650 m - [Ruru Lawn Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/ruru-lawn-cemetery), cemetery · ~700 m - [Bromley Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/bromley-cemetery), cemetery · ~850 m - [Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rutherford-street-woolston-cemetery), cemetery · 2.8 km ## The reports nearby 355 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/9002662), [28 Butterfield Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/28-butterfield-avenue) - [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8994985), [30 Butterfield Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/30-butterfield-avenue) - [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/8948953), [82 Butterfield Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/82-butterfield-avenue) - [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/8902164), [46 Butterfield Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/46-butterfield-avenue) - [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8877742), [7 Nalder Place, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/7-nalder-place) - [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8718290), [7 Nalder Place, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/7-nalder-place) - [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8717261), [116 McGregors Road, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/116-mcgregors-road) - [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/8693338), [30 Butterfield Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/30-butterfield-avenue) - [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8691062), [30A Butterfield Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/30a-butterfield-avenue) - [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8660076), [116 McGregors Road, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/116-mcgregors-road) - [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8640924), [7 Nalder Place, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/7-nalder-place) - [Water General](https://www.chch.live/report/8594765), [25 Butterfield Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/linwood/25-butterfield-avenue) ## Questions, answered briefly **Where is Linwood Cemetery?** In Linwood, Christchurch, the map draws its grounds as an outline, inside the city boundary. **What kind of cemetery is Linwood Cemetery?** The map tags it none, a mapper’s tag, not the council’s register. **What’s on the register near Linwood Cemetery?** 1 listed place within 300m, each opens its own record from this page. **Does this page list who is buried there?** Partly, the council’s register files 19,579 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 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/linwood-cemetery The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial