Centennial Park
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.Photo: Nzfooty, Public domain.
- Type: Recreation area
- Description: sports park
- Also known as: “Centennial Park, Christchurch”
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 southeast of Centennial Park.
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 1¼ km southeast of Centennial Park.
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. Cashmere High School is situated 1 km east of Centennial Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Somerfield and Cracroft.
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.
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.
Centennial Park
- Categories: park, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.5664° or 43° 33′ 59″ southLongitude
172.61322° or 172° 36′ 48″ eastOperator
Christchurch City CouncilOpen location code
4V8JCJM7+C7OpenStreetMap ID
way 28398111OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=recreation_groundWikidata ID
Q5059187
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