# Wainui Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch A cemetery of the city, lying in Wainui, the ground as the open map draws it. Suburb: [Wainui](https://www.chch.live/wainui) From the air, an aerial view of Wainui Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-wainui-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0). ## The register of plots The council’s cemetery register files 316 plots in this ground, 164 marked occupied. Filed burials run 1886 to 2025. 46 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/wainui-cemetery ## The ground under it - [Inside a recorded flood footprint](https://www.chch.live/floods), 2008 Akaroa Basin Harbour Settlements Study - [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay - [On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground](https://www.chch.live/cultural), Whakaroa (Akaroa) - [Inside a kept landscape, Significant rural landscape](https://www.chch.live/landscape), the landscape schedule - [The plan zones this ground Specific Purpose (Cemetery)](https://www.chch.live/zones), SPC - [The nearest recorded shake: M3](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 8 September 2010 · 2.6 km from the pin · 2 logged within 5 km The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.80862&lon=172.904262&radius=250 ## Around it - [Wainui Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-68), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 6 m away - [Stanbury Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1598-stanbury-reserve), community park · ~350 m - [Wainui Main Road Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1113-wainui-main-road-reserve), community park · ~450 m - [Akaroa Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-anglican-cemetery), cemetery · 4.2 km - [Akaroa Dissenters Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-dissenters-cemetery), cemetery · 4.4 km - [Akaroa Catholic Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-catholic-cemetery), cemetery · 4.4 km - [Akaroa French Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-french-cemetery), cemetery · 5.3 km ## The reports nearby 9 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place. - [General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8345316), [8 Seaview Ln, Canterbury, French Farm 7582, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/wainui/8-seaview-lane) - [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/6282824), [1A Seaview Lane, Wainui 7582, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/wainui/1a-seaview-lane) - [Trees - General](https://www.chch.live/report/6062594), [101 Cemetery Road, Banks Peninsula, Wainui, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/wainui/101-cemetery-road) - [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/2611578), [25 Warnerville Road, Wainui 7582, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/wainui/25-warnerville-road) - [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/2611575), Cemetery Road & Warnerville Road, Wainui, New Zealand - [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/2611572), [101 Cemetery Road, Wainui 7582, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/wainui/101-cemetery-road) - [Roads - General](https://www.chch.live/report/2492879), [1A Seaview Lane, Wainui 7582, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/wainui/1a-seaview-lane) - [Water Supply](https://www.chch.live/report/2311281), [25 Warnerville Road, Wainui 7582, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/wainui/25-warnerville-road) - [Roading/Streets](https://www.chch.live/report/1658259), Cemetery Road, Wainui, 7582, Canterbury ## Questions, answered briefly **Where is Wainui Cemetery?** In Wainui, Christchurch, the map draws its grounds as an outline, inside the city boundary. **Does this page list who is buried there?** Partly, the council’s register files 316 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/wainui-cemetery The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial