Purau Reserve
Purau Reserve is a park in Christchurch City, Canterbury. Purau Reserve is situated nearby to St Augustine’s Church, Christchurch, as well as near Barrington Bridge.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Augustine’s Church, Christchurch and Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church.
St Augustine’s Church, Christchurch
Church
Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Augustine's Church is an Anglican church in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is registered as Category II by Heritage New Zealand. St Augustine’s Church, Christchurch is situated 180 metres east of Purau Reserve.
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 390 metres south of Purau Reserve.
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 470 metres southwest of Purau Reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cashmere and Somerfield.
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.
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.
Beckenham
Suburb
Photo: Gobeirne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beckenham is an inner suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located three kilometres south of the city centre. The Heathcote River winds through this predominantly residential suburb, a section of which is often referred to locally as the "Beckenham Loop".
Purau Reserve
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.56922° or 43° 34′ 9″ southLongitude
172.63129° or 172° 37′ 53″ eastOpen location code
4V8JCJJJ+8GOpenStreetMap ID
way 34581724OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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Satellite Map
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Barrington Bridge and Cashmere Bowling Club.
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