Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Canterbury > Christchurch > Inner-City Heritage Trail
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
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- Food & Drink
- Historical
- Plant Life
- Source
- www.ccc.govt.nz
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