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From the air

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

Windsor Castle

A named summit on the city’s high ground, standing over Sumner.

On the map as
summit
The suburb
Sumner

Where it stands

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position, the strong outline is the suburb the map puts it in, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Unlikely” the 2019 screening study On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground Raekura ki Matuku Takotako Inside a kept landscape, ONL38.2 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Open Space Natural ON The rockfall survey counts 52 boulders within 500 m 5 came down · 23 wobble easy The nearest recorded shake: M3 18 June 2011 · ~350 m from the pin · 525 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

Greenwood Park the regional park it’s inside Sumnervale Reserve community park · ~500 m Walk and bike track through Sumner track · ~500 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Clifton track · 1.5 km from the pin Port hills high place · 1.5 km Tauhinukorokio / Mount Pleasant high place · 1.8 km Ōketeupoko / The Basket of Heads high place · 2.3 km Upper Gondola Station high place · 2.6 km

The reports nearby

2 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 2 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak CPCV+9X Christchurch, Canterbury Region · 1 March 2026
Parks Richmond Hill Road · 5 February 2021

Questions, answered briefly

What is Windsor Castle?

A named summit in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing over Sumner.

Is the pin on the map exact?

It’s OpenStreetMap’s position, the top or the viewing spot as the volunteer map marks it. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position, elevation and names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named peak or viewpoint inside the city boundary (ODbL). An elevation is the mapper’s tag, not a fresh survey; the dual names are recorded as the map carries them.

This page as markdown: /summit/windsor-castle.md · every high place as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the old sites below: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.