Somerfield
Somerfield is a suburb in the south of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is nominally bordered by the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River to the south and west, Strickland and Colombo Streets to the east, and Milton Street to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 7,070 residents
- Description: suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Somerfield, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sydenham Cemetery and Cashmere High School.
Cashmere High School
School
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 nz.
Cashmere High School is a state coeducational secondary school, located in southern Christchurch, New Zealand. It was opened in 1956 in response to population growth in southern Christchurch during the 1950s.
Ngaio Marsh House
Museum
Photo: Roslyn Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cashmere and Beckenham.
Cashmere
Suburb
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cashmere 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.
Beckenham
Suburb
Photo: Gobeirne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beckenham is an inner suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located three kilometres south of the city centre. The Heathcote River winds through this predominantly residential suburb, a section of which is often referred to locally as the "Beckenham Loop".
Spreydon
Suburb
Spreydon is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 kilometres south-south-west of Cathedral Square. The most central street through Spreydon is Barrington Street.
Somerfield
- Category: locality
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.56239° or 43° 33′ 45″ southLongitude
172.62571° or 172° 37′ 33″ eastPopulation
7,070Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
4V8JCJQG+27OpenStreetMap ID
node 1146614570OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6220884Wikidata ID
Q7559744
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Somerfield” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Somerfield, New Zealand”
- French: “Somerfield”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somerfield på New Zealand”
- Turkish: “Somerfield”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mark’s Methodist Church and Somerfield School.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Somerfield”. Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.