Hoon Hay
Hoon Hay is an outer suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located at the base of the Port Hills and about 5 kilometres southwest of Cathedral Square. The area was named by Captain Wickham Talbot Harvey, a captain of the British Royal 10th Hussars, who moved to the area in 1852 and named it after the farm in Hoon, Derbyshire where he grew up.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Centennial Park and Princess Margaret Hospital.
Centennial Park
Recreation area
Photo: Nzfooty, Public domain.
Centennial Park is a public park located in the suburb of Spreydon in the southwestern part of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is bordered by Lyttelton Street to the east, Rose Street to the south, Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River to the west and Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre to the north.
Princess Margaret Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Princess Margaret Hospital was a public hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand, run by the Canterbury District Health Board. It opened in 1959 and closed in 2024.
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 Spreydon and Somerfield.
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
Suburb
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.
Cracroft
Suburb
Photo: Schwede66, Public domain.
Cracroft is a south-west suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Cracroft was named for John Cracroft Wilson, who settled in this part of Christchurch at the bottom of the Port Hills Range in 1854.
Hoon Hay
- Type: Suburb with 9,510 residents
- Description: suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.56448° or 43° 33′ 52″ southLongitude
172.60879° or 172° 36′ 32″ eastPopulation
9,510Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
4V8JCJP5+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 291543179OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6220937Wikidata ID
Q5898247
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Hoon Hay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hoon Hay”
- French: “Hoon Hay”
- Persian: “هون هی”
- Turkish: “Hoon Hay”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Our Lady of the Assumption and Our Lady of the Assumption School (Christchurch).
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