# Yaldhurst Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

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

Dated: 1887

Suburb: [Templeton](https://www.chch.live/templeton)

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

## The register of plots

The council’s cemetery register files 2,877 plots in this ground, 1,589 marked occupied.
Filed burials run 1887 to 2026.
129 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/yaldhurst-cemetery

## The ground under it

- [The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Unlikely”](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: M3.4](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 12 January 2011 · 1.3 km from the pin · 22 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.511886&lon=172.475567&radius=250

## Around it

- [Yaldhurst Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-62), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 31 m away
- [Rimu Park](https://www.chch.live/park/930-rimu-park), community park · ~100 m
- [Yaldhurst Bush](https://www.chch.live/park/1538-yaldhurst-bush), community park · ~350 m
- [Avonhead Memorial Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/avonhead-memorial-cemetery), cemetery · 5.8 km
- [Under the Rata Memorial Garden](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/under-the-rata-memorial-garden), cemetery · 8.0 km
- [Waimairi Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/waimairi-cemetery), cemetery · 8.3 km
- [Mount Magdala Cemetery of the Good Shepherd Sisters](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/mount-magdala-cemetery-of-the-good-shepherd-sisters), cemetery · 9.3 km


## The reports nearby
34 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place.
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8658554), [290 West Coast Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/290-west-coast-road)
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/7373646), [272 West Coast Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/272-west-coast-road)
- [Trees - General](https://www.chch.live/report/6792987), 519–543 Buchanans Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/6025224), [272 West Coast Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/272-west-coast-road)
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/6016482), [290 West Coast Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/290-west-coast-road)
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/5905149), [581 Buchanans Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/581-buchanans-road)
- [Pest / Vermin](https://www.chch.live/report/5903583), [581 Buchanans Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/581-buchanans-road)
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/5088808), [622 Buchanans Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/622-buchanans-road)
- [Rubbish and Bins - General](https://www.chch.live/report/5088776), Rimu Scout Park, Rimu Park 581-611 Buchanans Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand
- [Rubbish and Bins - General](https://www.chch.live/report/5080761), Rimu Scout Park, Rimu Park 581-611 Buchanans Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/5032980), [272 West Coast Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/272-west-coast-road)
- [General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/4767234), [272 West Coast Road, Templeton, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/templeton/272-west-coast-road)

## Questions, answered briefly

**Where is Yaldhurst Cemetery?**

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

**What kind of cemetery is Yaldhurst 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 2,877 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/yaldhurst-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial
