Cracroft Wilson House
Cracroft Wilson House is a manor estate in Christchurch City, Canterbury which is located on Bengal Drive. Cracroft Wilson House is situated nearby to the park Bengal Reserve, as well as near Cracroft Caverns Reserve.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Princess Margaret Hospital and Ngaio Marsh House.
Princess Margaret Hospital
Hospital
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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. Princess Margaret Hospital is situated 430 metres north of Cracroft Wilson House.
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. Ngaio Marsh House is situated 570 metres northeast of Cracroft Wilson House.
Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church
Church
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Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is registered as Category II by Heritage New Zealand. Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church is situated 800 metres east of Cracroft Wilson House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cracroft and Cashmere.
Cracroft
Suburb
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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.
Cashmere
Suburb
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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.
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 Wilson House
- Type: Manor estate
- Address: 39 Bengal Drive, Cashmere, Christchurch, 8022
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.57519° or 43° 34′ 31″ southLongitude
172.62134° or 172° 37′ 17″ eastOpen location code
4V8JCJFC+WGOpenStreetMap ID
way 1010102809OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=manor
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bengal Reserve and Cracroft Caverns Reserve.
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