First Flush Basin

First Flush Basin is in Christchurch City, Canterbury. First Flush Basin is situated nearby to Cashmere Valley Lower Basin, as well as near the park Shalamar Reserve.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Princess Margaret Hospital and Ngaio Marsh House.

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. Princess Margaret Hospital is situated 1 km north of First Flush Basin.

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 1 km northeast of First Flush Basin.

Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church

Church

Photo: Blue Bubble Blower, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 1¼ km northeast of First Flush Basin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cracroft and Westmorland.

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.

Westmorland

Suburb

Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Westmorland is an outer suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is situated mostly on a hillside and is a recent development of the city, dating back to the 1970s.

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.

First Flush Basin

Type: Body of water
Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-43.57858° or 43° 34′ 43″ south

Longitude

172.61865° or 172° 37′ 7″ east

Open location code

4V8JCJC9+HF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1168435975

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=basin

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Highlights include Cashmere Valley Lower Basin and Shalamar Reserve.

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