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From the air

aerial view of Waimairi Cemetery and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Waimairi Cemetery

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

On the map as
cemetery
The suburb
Burnside
Dated
1909

Where it lies

The grounds as OpenStreetMap outlines them, a mapper’s draw, not the surveyed title. The strong outline is the suburb.

The register of plots

The council’s cemetery register files 14,239 plots in this ground, 13,744 marked occupied, burials filed from 1911 to 2026. The register names everyone buried here, this page names only those seventy years gone or more (2,486 of them).

    Seventy years gone or older: newer burials are counted above, never listed. The council keeps the whole register and its own grave search for the rest.

    The ground under it

    The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

    Around it

    The reports nearby

    206 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 160 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

    Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 25 September 2026
    Dumped Rubbish 195A Grahams Rd · 25 September 2026
    General Request 26 Cranbrook Ave · 21 September 2026
    Park - General Request Canterbury · 15 September 2026
    Water General 195 Grahams Road, Burnside · 1 September 2026
    Public Toilet 195A Grahams Rd · 24 August 2026
    Fallen Tree Canterbury · 18 August 2026
    Water Leak 176 Grahams Road, Burnside · 12 August 2026
    Dumped Rubbish 195A Grahams Rd · 1 August 2026

    Questions, answered briefly

    Where is Waimairi Cemetery?

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

    What kind of cemetery is Waimairi 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 14,239 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 record behind this

    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 above is their Green Assets layer (gmCemeteryPlot), names included only where the death is seventy years gone or more.

    This page as markdown: /cemetery/waimairi-cemetery.md · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the monuments beside them: /memorial · every roll, counted: /geography.