This Tree Was Planted by the Riccarton

A plaque at Denton Park, standing in Hornby. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

THIS TREE WAS PLANTED BY THE RICCARTON / WIGRAM COMMUNITY BOARD TO COMMEMORATE 100 YEARS OF WOMENS' SUFFRAGE 1993

The ground

Denton Park

The suburb

Hornby

The year

2013, the register’s commission

The register says

in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Denton Park

The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.

Where it stands

The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

In the archive

Documents naming This Tree Was Planted by the Riccarton the shelf, searched for the name on the plaque The record’s own search everywhere else the name appears Denton Park the park the plaque stands on Hornby the suburb it stands in

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

The liquefaction model grades it “Low Liquefaction Vulnerability” the 2019 screening study The plan zones this ground Open Space Metropolitan Facilities OMF The nearest recorded shake: M4.1 4 September 2010 · ~750 m from the pin · 46 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

Denton Park the sports ground park it’s inside Goulding Playground community park · ~300 m Walk and bike track through Hornby track · ~200 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Hornby South track · ~200 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Islington track · ~450 m from the pin 'Pathways Home' a Riccarton plaque · ~150 m Little Waterloo Park plaque plaque · 2.1 km Peebles Reserve plaque plaque · 2.1 km Bennington 1 Drainage Reserve plaque plaque · 2.2 km

The reports nearby

555 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 456 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Flooding 52 Kathleen Crescent, Hornby · 27 September 2026

Damaged Street Sign 431 Main South Road, Hornby · 20 September 2026

Street Gutters / Storm Water 437 Main South Road, Hornby · 17 September 2026

Street Gutters / Storm Water 437 Main South Road, Hornby · 7 September 2026

Water Leak 44C Kathleen Crescent, Hornby · 7 September 2026

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 442 Main South Rd · 24 August 2026

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 13 Chalmers St · 24 August 2026

Dumped Rubbish 446 Main South Rd · 21 August 2026

Hazard, vehicle 11 Seymour Street, Hornby · 20 August 2026

Street Light Outage 13 Chalmers St · 29 July 2026

Poles and Signage - General 462 Main South Rd · 29 July 2026

Accessibility 13 Chalmers St · 28 July 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Denton Park in Hornby, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2013. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.

This page as markdown: /plaque/111509-denton-park.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.