The station and the trees
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.
The walk, as a line
Straight between pins, the streets run longer. Every numbered pin opens that place’s own record.
The stops, in order
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Strowan, 347S Papanui Road · Heritage NZ list 3732 · 23 unread leads
Strowan, the named house at the walk’s north end.
- Dwelling and Setting, Woodford, 399 Papanui Road · 20 unread leads
Woodford, the second named house.
- Streets with trees and plaques · 4 unread leads
The memorial streets, the register’s own entry for avenues of trees and plaques.
- St Paul's Church Graveyard · Heritage NZ list 7635 · 6 unread leads
St Paul’s graveyard, the ground around the church.
- St Paul's Church and Setting · Heritage NZ list 7635 · 28 unread leads · a Wikipedia entry
St Paul’s Church, the parish church on the roll.
- Former Papanui Railway Station and Setting, 1 Restell Street · Heritage NZ list 7415 · 39 unread leads · a Wikipedia entry
The former railway station, the stop the suburb grew around.
The reports along it
1,341 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 1,114 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Questions, answered briefly
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. 6 listed places, 1.6 km as the line runs, Papanui.
Former Dwelling and Setting, Strowan (347S Papanui Road) to Former Papanui Railway Station and Setting (1 Restell Street), the order is a suggestion, not the only way round.
Every one, each pin is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, and each opens the place’s own sourced record here.
1.6 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: Papanui
The same ground today: PAPANUI
This page as markdown: /walks/papanui-memorial-trees.md · the route as data: /walks/papanui-memorial-trees.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.
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