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Hornby Domain

Sports ground · 3 ha

From the air

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

Where it sits

Its centre falls inside Islington, suburb membership is a centroid call, not a claim the whole park lies inside the outline.

More green in Islington

What’s built on this ground

No playground is on the register here, the asset layers name none for this ground.

Also on the register: 6 seats (3 seats and 3 benches) and 6 pieces of sports gear (4 tennis nets and 2 goal posts).

The register’s commission dates run 2008 to 2013.

The register’s site tag names this park, and its pins stand inside the drawn outline, two views of the same ground.

Sport and dogs on this ground

The recreation register marks 8 playing surfaces on this ground, 4 Tennis, 2 Bowls, Croquet and Hockey, graded senior and intermediate on grass and asphalt, one runs a winter or summer booking season.

The register books them by name, Bowling Club, Tennis Court 2, Croquet, Tennis Court 1, Tennis Court 3 and Tennis Court 4, and 1 more named ground.

The winter window runs April to August; match days land on Saturday.

The register names this park, and its record centroids sit inside the drawn outline, two views of the same ground.

The reports on this ground

134 reports pinned inside the park's drawn outline, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 113 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the whole park.

Environment Canterbury / Canterbury Maps, Parks layer · refreshed 10 October 2026.

What stood on this ground before → · On the map →

Questions, answered briefly

How big is Hornby Domain?

3 hectares by the layer’s own polygon.

Where is Hornby Domain?

Its centre falls inside Islington, a centroid call, not a claim the whole park lies inside the outline.

What kind of place is Hornby Domain?

Sports ground.

Where does this record come from?

Environment Canterbury’s open Parks layer, kind, size and suburb read straight from it.