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From the air

aerial view of Old Halswell Quarry and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Old Halswell Quarry

A named quarry in Christchurch, at Kennedys Bush.

On the map as
quarry
The suburb
Kennedys Bush
Register places near it
3

Where it sits

The pin sits near the pit’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

On the register nearby

Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the stone, not the feature itself unless the register says so.

The ground under it

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

Around it

The reports nearby

151 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 107 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Facility - General Request Kennedys Bush Road, Kennedys Bush · 1 October 2026
Park - General Request Halswell Quarry Kennedys Bush Road, Kennedys Bush · 26 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park CH2H+QV Kurashiki Garden Songpa Street, Kennedys Bush · 16 September 2026
Water Leak Halswell Quarry Kennedys Bush Road, Kennedys Bush · 23 August 2026
Pothole 270 Kennedys Bush Rd · 17 July 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Kennedys Bush Road, Kennedys Bush · 5 June 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 15 March 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 19 January 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Old Halswell Quarry?

A named quarry in Christchurch, at Kennedys Bush, as the open map records it.

What’s on the register near Old Halswell Quarry?

3 listed places within 300m of the pin, each opens its own record from this page.

Where exactly is Old Halswell Quarry?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the quarry, the pit’s mapped outline or its middle. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named cliff, rock, reef or quarry inside the city boundary (ODbL). The dual names and the crag names are recorded as the map carries them; a pin is the mapper’s position, not a surveyed mark.

This page as markdown: /rock/old-halswell-quarry.md · the whole roll as data: /rock.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=rock · the high places: /summit · the old sites: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.