# Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

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

Suburb: [Woolston](https://www.chch.live/woolston)

From the air, an aerial view of Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-rutherford-street-woolston-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## On the register nearby

- [Woolston Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/place/460), 76 Rutherford Street

## The register of plots

The council’s cemetery register files 1,873 plots in this ground, 1,773 marked occupied.
Dates in this range are burial dates where recorded, otherwise dates of death: 1841 to 2024.
1,708 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/rutherford-street-woolston-cemetery

## The ground under it

- [The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible”](https://www.chch.live/vulnerability), the 2019 screening study
- [Inside a listed place’s setting](https://www.chch.live/heritage), Woolston 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), 22 February 2011 · ~150 m from the pin · 575 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.556034&lon=172.682083&radius=250

## Around it

- [Rutherford Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/park/1171-rutherford-cemetery), the botanic park it’s inside
- [Heathcote Riverbank True Right](https://www.chch.live/park/1345-heathcote-riverbank-true-right), community park · ~150 m
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-89-woolston), track · under 150 m
- [Bromley Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/bromley-cemetery), cemetery · 2.0 km
- [Ruru Lawn Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/ruru-lawn-cemetery), cemetery · 2.5 km
- [Linwood Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/linwood-cemetery), cemetery · 2.8 km
- [Memorial Park Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/memorial-park-cemetery), cemetery · 2.9 km


## The reports nearby
752 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place.
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/9074529), [102 Cumnor Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/102-cumnor-terrace)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/9074492), [102 Cumnor Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/102-cumnor-terrace)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/9041930), [145A Connal Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/145a-connal-street)
- [Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge](https://www.chch.live/report/9032937), [100 Rutherford St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/100-rutherford-street)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/9032775), [77 Rutherford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/77-rutherford-street)
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/9001748), [145 Connal Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/145-connal-street)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8970868), [1 Garlands Road, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/1-garlands-road)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8964410), [102 Cumnor Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/102-cumnor-terrace)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8961649), [102 Cumnor Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/102-cumnor-terrace)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8961512), [145 Connal St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/145-connal-street)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8955233), [102 Cumnor Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/102-cumnor-terrace)
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/8948849), [76 Rutherford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/woolston/76-rutherford-street)

## Questions, answered briefly

**Where is Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery?**

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

**What’s on the register near Rutherford Street (Woolston) 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 1,873 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/rutherford-street-woolston-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial
