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From the air

aerial view of old Heathcote Quarry site and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

old Heathcote Quarry site

A named quarry in Christchurch, at Heathcote Valley.

On the map as
quarry
The suburb
Heathcote Valley

Where it sits

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

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

37 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 34 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak Bridle Path Rd near Hammerton Ln · 15 February 2025
Water Leak Bridle Path Rd near Hammerton Ln · 13 February 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is old Heathcote Quarry site?

A named quarry in Christchurch, at Heathcote Valley, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is old Heathcote Quarry site?

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-heathcote-quarry-site.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.