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What was here

630 places on Christchurch’s heritage register, what is known about each, and the document it is known from.

On the register
630
heritage places
Heritage NZ listed
218
Matched to an address
482
0 not yet checked
Localities
66
29 with a page of their own

The deepest records

The places the archive holds the most about, a written piece, lives that stood on the same ground, claims read out of documents, leads not yet read. Deep is not important: it means somebody has got to this record. A bare entry is not a place without a past, its reading is just still ahead of it.

Written and sourced

The first documents

The register

Every place on the register, under the part of the city it names, a locality with three or more keeps a page of its own.

Central City 142
Lyttelton 73
Fendalton 30
St Albans 19
Merivale 15
Taylors Mistake 14
Ilam 13
Cashmere 12
Governors Bay 12
Taylors Mistake - South 12
Upper Riccarton 12
Addington 11
Sydenham 10
Diamond Harbour 9
Linwood 9
Halswell 8
Taylors Mistake Baches - North 8
Woolston 8
Belfast 7
Hornby 7
Opawa 6
Papanui 6
Sumner 5
Boulder Bay 4
Harewood 4
Richmond 4
Heathcote 3
Redcliffs 3
Riccarton 3
Moncks Spur 2
New Brighton 2
Port Levy 2
Somerfield 2
Avonhead 1
Avonside 1
Beckenham 1
Bromley 1
Canturbery Museum 1
Chaneys 1
Clacroft Caverns 1
Clifton 1
Cracroft 1
Ferrymead 1
Hagley Park 1
Harper Avenue 1
Heathcote/Lyttelton 1
Hereford Street 1
Hereitage Street 1
Hillsborough 1
Marshland 1
Motukarara 1
North New Brighton 1
Oaklands 1
Ouruhia 1
Phillipstown 1
Rata Street 1
Riccarton Park 1
Sockburn 1
Spencerville 1
Spreydon 1
St Asaph Street 1
St Martins 1
Taylors Mistake Baches - South 1
Templeton 1
Waltham 1
Yaldhurst 1
Elsewhere 120

Questions, answered briefly

What is this register?

630 places in Christchurch that the district plan’s heritage schedule or Heritage New Zealand has listed, each with what is known about it and the document it is known from. A statement without a source cannot be stored here, so it cannot appear.

What does a "deep" record mean?

How much the archive currently holds on the place, a written piece, a Wikipedia entry, claims read out of documents, leads not yet read. It is coverage, not importance: a bare entry is a record nobody has got to yet.

Why does a place have no story?

A register entry is a listing, not a researched record. A statement appears only after somebody reads it out of a source, the gaps are the reading still to do. The corrections page says how a source gets filed.

Where do the documents come from?

The providers the archive searches, Papers Past, DigitalNZ’s partners, council collections. Every row links out to the original. They are leads and citations, not verified history.

The past, other doors in

When the record is wrong: the corrections log is public.