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Inner-City Heritage Trail

Location
The walk starts in Cathedral Square and finishes in Barbardoes Street.
Description

This trail follows the Avon River (Otakaro) past sites that became the focus of early contact between Ngai Tahu and the first Europeans.

Cathedral Square – central city. Plaques at Four Ships Court and on the east side of the Cathedral introduce you to the first peoples, Maori and European.

Puari – Worcester Boulevard Bridge. A panel here describes the site of a major Waitaha settlement. On the corner of Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace, a plaque commemorates the burial place for this settlement. A visit to the Canterbury Museum at the corner of Worcester Boulevard and Rolleston Avenue could be included . There you can see artefacts belonging to early Maori people and recreations of their lifestyle.)

Market Square – Victoria Square. Look across the Avon River to where early trading took place between Ngai Tahu and European settlers.

Pou – Victoria Square. At the carved pou (post) you can listen to Ngai Tahu’s creation legend.

O-tautahi /The Bricks – corner Oxford Terrace and Barbadoes Street. Panels at this site describe a Ngai Tahu seasonal campsite that gave Christchurch its Maori name and a landing place on the Avon River used by the first European settlers.

Allow 30 minutes from the city to Barbadoes Street.

Duration
0.3 hours
Level
Easy
Amenities
  • Food & Drink
  • Historical
  • Plant Life
Source
www.ccc.govt.nz
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