Wildlife Refuge

Wildlife Refuge is a nature reserve in Christchurch City, Canterbury. Wildlife Refuge is situated nearby to the neighborhood Quarry Paddocks, as well as near Riverstone.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Halswell, Christchurch and Halswell Quarry Park.

St Mary’s Church, Halswell, Christchurch

Church

Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Halswell Quarry Park

Quarry

Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Halswell Quarry Park is located in the suburb of Kennedys Bush at 185 Kennedy's Bush Road in Christchurch, New Zealand. Halswell Quarry operated between 1861 and 1990 before becoming the 60.4 hectares Halswell Quarry Park, one of many Christchurch City Council reserves.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Halswell and Wigram.

Halswell

Suburb

Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Originally a separate village, Halswell is now a residential suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located 9 kilometres southwest of Cathedral Square on State Highway 75.

Wigram

Suburb

Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.

Wigram is a suburb in the southwest of Christchurch, New Zealand. The suburb lies close to the industrial estates of Sockburn and the satellite retail and residential zone of Hornby, and has undergone significant growth in recent years due to housing developments.

Prebbleton

Town

Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ, CC0.

Prebbleton is a small town in the Selwyn District in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. It is 11 km southwest of the centre of Christchurch and about 2 km south of the outlying industrial suburb of Hornby.

Wildlife Refuge

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-43.598° or 43° 35′ 53″ south

Longitude

172.5745° or 172° 34′ 28″ east

Open location code

4V8JCH2F+QR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 28183372

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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