{"walks":[{"slug":"cathedral-square","name":"The square and its ring","area":"Central city","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":8,"km":1.12,"intro":"The shortest walk here and the most fought over. The square the city was surveyed around, the buildings that ringed it, and the street the rebuild saved whole. Start anywhere, it is a loop."},{"slug":"worcester-boulevard","name":"The boulevard","area":"Central city","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":8,"km":2.24,"intro":"Worcester Street from the Bridge of Remembrance to Rolleston Avenue, the street the civic city stacked itself along: council, church, club, college. Flat, straight, under two kilometres."},{"slug":"the-river-bend","name":"The river bend","area":"Central city","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":6,"km":2.81,"intro":"The Ōtākaro through town is a heritage walk of its own, the boatsheds, the rotunda, the bridges the register lists one by one. Follow the bank from Antigua Street to the Armagh Street bridge."},{"slug":"lyttelton-harbour","name":"The port’s first streets","area":"Lyttelton","subs":["lyttelton"],"n":8,"km":1.99,"intro":"The port’s front: from the pilgrims' landing site along Norwich Quay, up London Street’s shopfronts, and back past the gaol site and the graving dock. A steep half-day; the register is dense here."},{"slug":"lyttelton-town","name":"The port’s own town","area":"Lyttelton","subs":["lyttelton"],"n":18,"km":4.59,"intro":"The harbour walk covers the waterfront; this one is the town behind it, the vicarages and named houses of the west end, the lodges and shops of the main streets, the cells, the stables and the cobblestone gutters the borough left on the roll. It ends at the battery that watched the harbour mouth. Long, with a climb at the finish."},{"slug":"lyttelton-streets","name":"The numbered streets","area":"Lyttelton","subs":["lyttelton"],"n":24,"km":2.17,"intro":"Twenty-four register entries in four streets, Winchester’s run of nine listed dwellings is one of the densest residential rows on the register, and Canterbury, Oxford and St Davids keep their own rows around the corner. The port’s everyday houses, street by street."},{"slug":"riccarton-bush","name":"The bush and the great houses","area":"Riccarton & Fendalton","subs":["riccarton","fendalton"],"n":6,"km":4.05,"intro":"The oldest ground the roll holds, Riccarton Bush’s remnant kahikatea, and the big houses the early families built along the river flat: Riccarton House, Deans Cottage, Mona Vale."},{"slug":"sumner-front","name":"The sea front","area":"Sumner","subs":["sumner"],"n":5,"km":2.58,"intro":"Sumner keeps five entries on the register, the rock, the sea walls, the clock tower and two houses, and this walk covers all of them. Flat along the front, then a little uphill."},{"slug":"hackthorne-road","name":"The hillside climb","area":"Cashmere","subs":["cashmere"],"n":9,"km":3.84,"intro":"Hackthorne Road is the hillside’s register in one climb, the named houses along the row, the Sign of the Takahe at the top, and the house the register names for Ngaio Marsh just below. Steep, and the pins are the straight line, the road climbs more."},{"slug":"sydenham-flat","name":"The flat that kept its fabric","area":"Sydenham","subs":["sydenham"],"n":9,"km":2.94,"intro":"South of the square the flat kept its working fabric, listed cottages on Shelley Street, dwellings on the poet-named streets, the MED’s substations, a coronation fountain. Flat the whole way."},{"slug":"taylors-mistake-baches","name":"The bach row","area":"Taylors Mistake","subs":["sumner"],"n":34,"km":2.83,"intro":"Thirty-four register entries, and they are the row the bay is famous for, holiday baches the council lists one by one, from the settlement that began in caves and tents before the road came. The walk runs the shore west to east: the bunch at the bay’s south end first, the main row after, where the numbered baches and the numbered bays interleave, and the last three standing apart to the east. The numbers jump; the shore doesn’t. Long, a good stretch of coast between the row and its outliers."},{"slug":"fendalton-estates","name":"The old estates","area":"Fendalton","subs":["fendalton","riccarton"],"n":13,"km":4.26,"intro":"Fendalton was the district of big sections and bigger houses, and the register kept a surprising amount of it, one estate alone, Mona Vale, is five separate entries. This walk starts inside its grounds, comes out along Fendalton Road to the school’s gate, and finishes among the Glandovey Road houses the roll lists one by one. Longest walk on the shelf; flat the whole way."},{"slug":"st-albans-north-road","name":"The old north road","area":"St Albans","subs":["saint-albans"],"n":13,"km":4.11,"intro":"Papanui Road was the road north before the suburbs were suburbs, and St Albans kept the best of its houses, the register lists nineteen places here, most of them on the road or a street off it. This walk follows the road south and picks up the named dwellings on the way. Flat, about two kilometres with the detours."},{"slug":"governors-bay-and-the-hill","name":"The bay and the hill","area":"Governors Bay","subs":["governors-bay"],"n":12,"km":8,"intro":"Twelve register entries, and they tell the shape of the place on their own: ten of them sit along the shore road or just off it, the church, the school, the vicarage, the lock-up, and the last two are the Sign of the Kiwi at the top of the Port Hills. Flat along the bay, then the long climb. Bike or drive the hill if your legs object."},{"slug":"addington-church-and-gaol","name":"Church, gaol and the workshops","area":"Addington","subs":["addington"],"n":11,"km":1.88,"intro":"Addington’s register entries make one tight loop: a church with its square, its belltower and its lychgate all listed separately, a row of listed dwellings, the cemetery, the old gaol wall and the railway workshops' water tower. Under two kilometres end to end, a suburb’s whole history in one circuit."},{"slug":"merivale-houses","name":"The houses the avenues kept","area":"Merivale","subs":["merivale"],"n":15,"km":3.56,"intro":"Fifteen register entries, most of them the named dwellings of a leafy nineteenth-century suburb, plus a church, a war memorial, a park and a bridge. The walk strings them into one loop north to south, about two kilometres under the trees."},{"slug":"ilam-college-and-homesteads","name":"The college and the homesteads","area":"Ilam","subs":["ilam"],"n":13,"km":3.96,"intro":"Ilam’s register reads like a campus tour: seven entries belong to College House alone, hall, library, chapel, blocks, lodge, with the old homesteads and their gardens around it. Flat ground, about two and a half kilometres if you walk the lot."},{"slug":"upper-riccarton-old-road","name":"The old road’s houses","area":"Upper Riccarton","subs":["upper-riccarton"],"n":12,"km":5.82,"intro":"A dozen entries along the road Upper Riccarton grew around, named houses, a church with its graveyard and lychgate each listed, a library built as a memorial, and the hotel the road was made for. Under a kilometre end to end."},{"slug":"diamond-harbour-quarantine","name":"The quarantine shore","area":"Diamond Harbour","subs":["diamond-harbour"],"n":9,"km":19.44,"intro":"Nine entries along the harbour’s south shore, and three of them are the quarantine station the harbour once was, the barracks, the cemetery, and Ripapa Island out in the water. Long gaps between stops; this one is a drive or a ride as much as a walk."},{"slug":"halswell-quarry-and-church","name":"The quarry and the church","area":"Halswell","subs":["halswell"],"n":8,"km":3.29,"intro":"Halswell’s register reads in two clusters: four entries in the old quarry, the workings, the crusher buildings, the manager’s house, the singlemen’s quarters, and three around St Mary’s, plus the war memorial between them. Two short walks with a drive between."},{"slug":"woolston-borough","name":"The borough’s own","area":"Woolston","subs":["woolston"],"n":8,"km":6.26,"intro":"Woolston was its own borough once, and the register kept the evidence, the borough monument, the cemetery, the training hostel, a cottage named for whalebone. A kilometre and a half of the flat."},{"slug":"linwood-factory-garden","name":"The factory garden","area":"Linwood","subs":["linwood"],"n":9,"km":4.92,"intro":"Nine entries between the Edmonds factory’s garden and the Avonside churchyard, the town board’s offices, an MED substation, and the named dwellings of the flat in between. Flat, short, and all on the register."},{"slug":"hornby-airfield","name":"The airfield","area":"Hornby","subs":["hornby"],"n":7,"km":2.74,"intro":"Five of Hornby’s seven register entries are the same airfield, RNZAF Station Wigram’s hangars, barracks, mess and classrooms, and the sixth is the landing site the register names for Kingsford Smith. The buildings stand around the old field; the last stop is a listed dwelling up the road."},{"slug":"papanui-memorial-trees","name":"The station and the trees","area":"Papanui","subs":["papanui"],"n":6,"km":1.58,"intro":"Six entries through old Papanui, the railway station the suburb grew around, St Paul’s with its graveyard, two named houses, and the memorial streets themselves: whole avenues listed, trees and plaques together. Flat and short."},{"slug":"opawa-named-houses","name":"The named houses","area":"Opawa","subs":["opawa"],"n":6,"km":2.09,"intro":"All six of Opawa’s register entries are named dwellings, Fifield, Risingholme, The Hollies, Cardowan, Calimo, Roxburghe, strung along about a kilometre of the suburb. A short walk through the names the roll kept."},{"slug":"belfast-village","name":"The village’s remains","area":"Belfast","subs":["belfast"],"n":7,"km":6.23,"intro":"Seven entries across what was a self-contained village, the church, the store, the schoolmaster’s house, a grove, a reserve, and the crematorium’s chapel at the far end. Spread out; the far stop is a walk of its own from the village."},{"slug":"christs-college","name":"The school’s own register","area":"Christchurch Central City","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":13,"km":1.06,"intro":"One school keeps eleven entries on the roll, Christ’s College’s chapel, houses, classrooms, halls and library each listed separately along Rolleston Avenue. The walk is a campus tour, ending at the memorial chapel across the river. Flat and short."},{"slug":"civic-stones","name":"The city’s stones","area":"Christchurch Central City","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":6,"km":0.99,"intro":"Six entries and every one of them is public memory, two captains in bronze, the citizens' war memorial, and the Provincial Council Buildings that kept three listings for themselves. A short loop of the centre."},{"slug":"belfries-and-chapels","name":"Belfries and chapels","area":"Christchurch Central City","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":8,"km":4.06,"intro":"The roll keeps eight church entries across the centre, a bishop’s chapel, a convent chapel, two churches that each kept their bell tower and vicarage as separate listings, and the school hall of the city’s oldest parish. A loop of the centre’s sacred ground."},{"slug":"high-street","name":"The old high street","area":"Christchurch Central City","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":11,"km":0.65,"intro":"Five commercial listings and six listed pocket parks, High Street’s register reads like the street itself, the old shopfronts and the little triangles of public ground between them. A short walk down the old shopping mile."},{"slug":"the-old-varsity","name":"The old university","area":"Christchurch Central City","subs":["christchurch-central-city"],"n":12,"km":0.61,"intro":"Before it moved to Ilam, the university kept a whole campus on Hereford Street, the roll lists its chemistry, physics, biology and engineering blocks, its library, its quadrangles and its students' union, building by building. A campus walk the way Christ’s College is a school walk."}]}