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Cashmere (Māori: Te Iringa-o-Kahukura) is a suburb which rises above the southern end of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand's South Island, on the north side of the Port Hills. It covers an area of 4.71 km 2 (1.82 sq mi) and has a population of 6,453 as at 2018.
Ngaio Marsh House, the home of Dame Ngaio Marsh for most her life, is a heritage property in Valley Road in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere.It serves as a museum to Dame Ngaio, one of New Zealand's most famous cultural figures and one of the original Queens of Crime from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, and Margery Allingham.
Cracroft Caverns, also known as the Cashmere Caverns, are a series of large chambers in the hill of the Cashmere suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.. Constructed secretly during the Second World War in response to the Japanese threat, they were intended to house operational headquarters in the event of attack.
Christchurch has listings in the former two categories. As of July 2011 [update] , there were 315 historic places and seven historic areas listed. In August 2011, Heritage New Zealand started the process of removing listings of buildings demolished after the earthquakes, starting with the Manchester Courts and the NZ Trust and Loan Building ...
[1] [2] Curletts Stream flows through an industrial part of Christchurch before joining Ōpāwaho. [3] The Heathcote River flows through Wigram , Hillmorton (where the main springs are located), Hoon Hay (and from there around the base of the Port Hills), Spreydon , Cracroft , Cashmere , Beckenham , St. Martins , Opawa , Woolston and Ferrymead .
Dyers Pass (elevation c. 330 m), almost due south of central Christchurch is the more prominent of the two passes. Evans Pass (elevation c. 200 m), which is near the eastern end of the Port Hills, normally connects Sumner and Lyttelton but was closed since the 2011 Christchurch earthquake caused significant damage to Sumner Road on the ...
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The Christchurch Transport Board was an autonomous special-purpose municipal authority responsible for the construction, acquisition, and ownership of local transport assets and the operation of public transport services in the Christchurch region of New Zealand's South Island.