The borough’s own
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.
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
- Dwelling and Setting, Bloomsbury, 37 Maunsell Street · 20 unread leads
Bloomsbury, the named dwelling at the walk’s north end.
- Woolston Cemetery, 76 Rutherford Street · 49 unread leads
Woolston Cemetery, the borough’s dead get their own entry.
- Dwelling and Setting, Whalebone Cottage, 704 Ferry Road · Heritage NZ list 1945 · 10 unread leads
Whalebone Cottage, the name is the story.
- 51 Radley Street, 51 Radley Street · 12 unread leads
51 Radley Street, a listed dwelling.
- Commercial Building and Setting, 650 Ferry Road · 20 unread leads
A listed commercial building, the borough’s working side.
- Former Girls’ Training Hostel and Setting, 30 Sullivan Avenue · Heritage NZ list 7636 · 22 unread leads
The former Girls' Training Hostel, institutional Woolston on the roll.
- Woolston Borough Monument and Setting · Heritage NZ list 1949 · 20 unread leads
The Borough Monument, the marker of the borough itself.
- MED substation and setting · 7 unread leads
An MED substation, even the power company is heritage here.
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.
A ramp at Woolston Park, 4 m long · built 2009
A ramp at Woolston Park, 4 m long · built 2009
A set of steps, 3 steps · built 2018- A jetty 2 m off the line
- A set of steps, 3 steps · built 2018 6 m off the line
A set of steps at Woolston Park, 12 steps · built 2017 8 m off the line
A set of steps, 6 steps · built 2018 9 m off the line
A viewing platform at Christchurch Quay Reserve, 5.7 m² deck · built 2006 11 m off the line
The reports along it
6,339 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 5,246 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Dumped Rubbish
Fallen Tree
General Request
Dumped RubbishQuestions, answered briefly
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. 8 listed places, 6.3 km as the line runs, Woolston.
Dwelling and Setting, Bloomsbury (37 Maunsell Street) to MED substation and setting, 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.
6.3 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: Woolston
The same ground today: Woolston
This page as markdown: /walks/woolston-borough.md · the route as data: /walks/woolston-borough.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.