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The factory garden

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.

Stops on the register
9
The line, straight
4.9 km
The ground
Linwood

The walk, as a line

Edmonds Factory Garden1Dwelling and Setting2Dwelling and Setting3Former Linwood Town Board Offices and Setting4Dwelling and Setting5MED Substation6Dwelling and Setting, Englefield7Holy Trinity Avonside Graveyard and Setting8Holy Trinity Avonside Lychgate and Setting9

Straight between pins, the streets run longer. Every numbered pin opens that place’s own record.

The stops, in order

  1. Edmonds Factory Garden · 20 unread leads

    The Edmonds Factory Garden, the factory’s grounds are the first entry.

  2. Dwelling and Setting, 14 Bass Street · Heritage NZ list 1876 · 20 unread leads

    A listed dwelling on the way south.

  3. Dwelling and Setting, 63 Aldwins Road · Heritage NZ list 579 · 20 unread leads

    Another, the flat kept its houses.

  4. Former Linwood Town Board Offices and Setting, 388 Worcester Street · Heritage NZ list 5382 · 39 unread leads

    The former Linwood Town Board offices, local government’s own building.

  5. Dwelling and Setting, 196 Fitzgerald Avenue · Heritage NZ list 5292 · 20 unread leads

    A listed dwelling mid-walk.

  6. MED Substation, 70E Linwood Avenue · 27 unread leads

    The MED substation, infrastructure on the register.

  7. Dwelling and Setting, Englefield, 230 Fitzgerald Avenue · Heritage NZ list 1867 · 20 unread leads

    Englefield, the walk’s named dwelling.

  8. Holy Trinity Avonside Graveyard and Setting, 168 Stanmore Road · 28 unread leads

    Holy Trinity Avonside’s graveyard, the churchyard is its own entry.

  9. Holy Trinity Avonside Lychgate and Setting, 168 Stanmore Road · 26 unread leads

    And its lychgate, the last stop, at the gate.

What the register built on the way

Council structures within about 30 m of the stop-to-stop line, the bridges, steps and shelters the route passes. Site names are the register’s own.

The reports along it

5,188 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 4,266 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is the "The factory garden" walk?

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. 9 listed places, 4.9 km as the line runs, Linwood.

Where does "The factory garden" start and end?

Edmonds Factory Garden to Holy Trinity Avonside Lychgate and Setting (168 Stanmore Road), the order is a suggestion, not the only way round.

Are the stops on "The factory garden" really listed?

Every one, each pin is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, and each opens the place’s own sourced record here.

How long is the "The factory garden" walk?

4.9 km measured straight between the pins, the streets run longer, and the stops deserve a pause each.

The record behind this

Every stop is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, held here as the register’s own layer. The order and the notes are ours, the listings are the council’s and Heritage New Zealand’s. "Setting" is the register’s word for the ground a listing covers.

The rest of the register here: Linwood

The same ground today: Linwood

This page as markdown: /walks/linwood-factory-garden.md · the route as data: /walks/linwood-factory-garden.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.