The old road’s houses
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.
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, Middleton · Heritage NZ list 1824
Middleton, the named dwelling at the walk’s south end.
- Dwelling and Setting, Strone, 75 Hansons Lane · 19 unread leads
Strone, the road’s named houses continue.
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Stevenholme/ Rannerdale House, 71 Suva Street · 2 unread leads
Stevenholme, also listed as Rannerdale, two names on one listing.
- J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton Road · 23 unread leads
The J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children’s Library, built as a memorial, on the roll.
- Dwelling and Setting, Midway, 7 Middleton Road · 20 unread leads
Midway, another named dwelling.
- Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road · 20 unread leads
A listed commercial building, the road’s working side.
- St Peter's Church Graveyard and Setting, 24 Main South Road · 24 unread leads
St Peter’s graveyard, the ground around the church is its own entry.
- St Peter's Church & Setting, 24 Main South Road · Heritage NZ list 1792 · 29 unread leads · a Wikipedia entry
St Peter’s Church, the parish church on the roll.
- St Peter's Church Lychgate and Setting, 25 Yaldhurst Road · 20 unread leads
And its lychgate, the precinct’s third listing.
- Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, 350 Riccarton Road · 38 unread leads
The Bush Inn Hotel, the road’s own hotel, on the roll.
- Dwelling and Setting, Chokebore Lodge, 148 Racecourse Road · Heritage NZ list 1791 · 14 unread leads
Chokebore Lodge, the name alone earns the stop.
- Dwelling and Setting, Huntley, 67 Yaldhurst Road · 20 unread leads
Huntley, the last named dwelling on the walk.
The reports along it
2,703 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 2,196 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Pavement - General
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Pavement - General
Accessibility
General Request
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Hazard, vehicle
Poles and Signage - GeneralQuestions, answered briefly
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. 12 listed places, 5.8 km as the line runs, Upper Riccarton.
Former Dwelling and Setting, Middleton to Dwelling and Setting, Huntley (67 Yaldhurst Road), 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.
5.8 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: Upper Riccarton
The same ground today: Upper Riccarton
This page as markdown: /walks/upper-riccarton-old-road.md · the route as data: /walks/upper-riccarton-old-road.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.