St Martins, New Zealand
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St Martins is an inner suburb of Christchurch
, New Zealand
, located two kilometres south of the city centre. Primarily a residential area, St Martins was until recently host to a small shopping mall complex situated on Wilsons Road, the main thoroughfare through the suburb. The supermarket and surrounding businesses were badly damaged in the February 22 2011 earthquake, and the future of the complex is unknown.
There are a number of schools in the suburb, including St Martins School, Hillview Christian School and the Rudolf Steiner School. Other amenities are the Hansen, Centaurus and St Martins Parks.
The origination of the name is unclear. The most likely candidates are that it was named after a gathering held at St Martin's Hall in London immediately prior to the departure of the Canterbury pilgrims who came to settle the area, or that is was named for an area with which the original owner of the holdings (Henry Phillips) was connected.
St Martins is unbound by law. Waltham
to the north, Beckenham
to the west, Huntsbury
and Murray Aynsley
to the south and Opawa
to the east.
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, located two kilometres south of the city centre. Primarily a residential area, St Martins was until recently host to a small shopping mall complex situated on Wilsons Road, the main thoroughfare through the suburb. The supermarket and surrounding businesses were badly damaged in the February 22 2011 earthquake, and the future of the complex is unknown.
There are a number of schools in the suburb, including St Martins School, Hillview Christian School and the Rudolf Steiner School. Other amenities are the Hansen, Centaurus and St Martins Parks.
The origination of the name is unclear. The most likely candidates are that it was named after a gathering held at St Martin's Hall in London immediately prior to the departure of the Canterbury pilgrims who came to settle the area, or that is was named for an area with which the original owner of the holdings (Henry Phillips) was connected.
St Martins is unbound by law. Waltham
Waltham, New Zealand
Waltham is an inner suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located two kilometres southeast of the city centre. State Highway 73, part of Christchurch's ring road system, runs through the suburb, as does the Heathcote River and the Christchurch - Lyttelton rail corridor. The Christchurch gasworks was...
to the north, Beckenham
Beckenham, New Zealand
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"....
to the west, Huntsbury
Huntsbury
Huntsbury is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, on the fringes of the Port Hills three kilometres south of the city centre.Huntsbury is host to one of four fountains scattered over Christchurch. Huntsbury's fountain is at the top of Conifer Place....
and Murray Aynsley
Murray Aynsley
Murray Aynsley is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located on the fringes of the Port Hills 5 km south-east of the city centre. Situated above the suburb is Glenelg Children's Health Camp. The suburb is named after early Christchurch settler Hugh Murray-Aynsley JP....
to the south and Opawa
Opawa
Opawa is an inner suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located 2.5 kilometres south-east of the city centre.The name is a contraction of Opaawaho, which means a place of an outer pā or outpost in Māori. Opaawaho or Ōpāwaho is the Māori name for the Heathcote River....
to the east.