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Avonhead Park

Sports ground · 23 ha

From the air

aerial view of Avonhead Park and the ground around it
From the air, Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Where it sits

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

More green in Avonhead

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: 16 seats (11 seats and 5 benches), 1 drinking fountain and 4 pieces of sports gear (2 softball nets, 1 tennis practise wall and 1 basketball hoop).

The register’s commission dates run 1998 to 2020.

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 19 playing surfaces on this ground, 14 Football, 3 Baseball, Tennis and Basketball, graded intermediate, recreational and senior on asphalt and grass, 10 run a winter or summer booking season.

The register books them by name, Tennis Court, Basketball Half Court, Senior Football 2, Senior Football 1, Senior Football 4 and Senior Football 5, and 13 more named grounds.

The summer window runs January to December; the winter window runs April to August; match days land on Friday to Sunday; training runs Monday to Friday.

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

The plaques on this ground

Inscribed plaques whose pin stands inside the park's drawn outline, the remembered names the register keeps here.

The reports on this ground

613 reports pinned inside the park's drawn outline, most often Trees & parks and Rubbish & dumping, 506 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 Avonhead Park?

23 hectares by the layer’s own polygon.

Where is Avonhead Park?

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

What kind of place is Avonhead Park?

Sports ground.

Where does this record come from?

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