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Heritage walks

The register, on foot: hand-picked walks through the places the district plan lists, each stop linked to its own record. The order is a suggestion; the listings are the council’s.

Walks

31

Listed places on them

328

On foot, roughly

116.7 km

What the record says

The longest line is The quarantine shore, 19.4 km straight between pins, and still only 9 stops.
The bach row packs the most record into the shortest legs, 34 listed places inside 2.8 km, a stop about every 83 m.
8 of the walks tread Christchurch Central City, the register is thickest where the city began.
6 listed places stand on more than one walk, Bridge of Remembrance and Setting on 2 of them: The boulevard and The river bend.

The walks

The square and its ring Central city · 8 stops · 1.1 km as the line runs The boulevard Central city · 8 stops · 2.2 km as the line runs The river bend Central city · 6 stops · 2.8 km as the line runs The port’s first streets Lyttelton · 8 stops · 2.0 km as the line runs The port’s own town Lyttelton · 18 stops · 4.6 km as the line runs The numbered streets Lyttelton · 24 stops · 2.2 km as the line runs The bush and the great houses Riccarton & Fendalton · 6 stops · 4.0 km as the line runs The sea front Sumner · 5 stops · 2.6 km as the line runs The hillside climb Cashmere · 9 stops · 3.8 km as the line runs The flat that kept its fabric Sydenham · 9 stops · 2.9 km as the line runs The bach row Taylors Mistake · 34 stops · 2.8 km as the line runs The old estates Fendalton · 13 stops · 4.3 km as the line runs The old north road St Albans · 13 stops · 4.1 km as the line runs The bay and the hill Governors Bay · 12 stops · 8.0 km as the line runs Church, gaol and the workshops Addington · 11 stops · 1.9 km as the line runs The houses the avenues kept Merivale · 15 stops · 3.6 km as the line runs The college and the homesteads Ilam · 13 stops · 4.0 km as the line runs The old road’s houses Upper Riccarton · 12 stops · 5.8 km as the line runs The quarantine shore Diamond Harbour · 9 stops · 19.4 km as the line runs The quarry and the church Halswell · 8 stops · 3.3 km as the line runs The borough’s own Woolston · 8 stops · 6.3 km as the line runs The factory garden Linwood · 9 stops · 4.9 km as the line runs The airfield Hornby · 7 stops · 2.7 km as the line runs The station and the trees Papanui · 6 stops · 1.6 km as the line runs The named houses Opawa · 6 stops · 2.1 km as the line runs The village’s remains Belfast · 7 stops · 6.2 km as the line runs The school’s own register Christchurch Central City · 13 stops · 1.1 km as the line runs The city’s stones Christchurch Central City · 6 stops · 1.0 km as the line runs Belfries and chapels Christchurch Central City · 8 stops · 4.1 km as the line runs The old high street Christchurch Central City · 11 stops · 0.7 km as the line runs The old university Christchurch Central City · 12 stops · 0.6 km as the line runs

Questions, answered briefly

How many heritage walks are there here?

31 itineraries over 328 different listed places, the register, on foot.

Which is the longest heritage walk?

The quarantine shore, 19.4 km as the line runs through Diamond Harbour. The shortest is The old university at 0.6 km.

Who chose the walks?

The routes and notes are chch.live’s editorial work, the listings underneath are the district plan’s heritage schedule and Heritage New Zealand’s entries, each stop linked to its own sourced record.

Do the walks cover every listed place?

328 of the register’s places stand on a walk so far, the rest wait for a cluster worth walking, or a theme that ties the scattered ones together.

The record behind this

Walks are editorial, the stops and their order are chosen here, but every stop is a real register entry with its own sourced page. More walks join as the register’s coverage grows.

This page as markdown: /walks.md · every roll, counted: /geography.