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Cashmere, Christchurch — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Cashmere rises on the north side of the Port Hills, above the southern end of Christchurch.
About Cashmere
Where to stay in Cashmere
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Cashmere is hill ground. Rooms are scattered rather than clustered, and what brings people up here is the slope itself, the outlook back over Christchurch from the streets below Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church rather than any concentration of beds. Ngaio Marsh House stands on this side of the city.
Anyone wanting shops and transport takes the flat ground north instead and treats the Port Hills as a day out.
About Cashmere
What are the main landmarks in Cashmere?
Heritage here is domestic. Ngaio Marsh House and Holbury are hillside houses, while the former servants' quarters of Cracroft House survive from the estate they once served on this shoulder of the Port Hills. Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church is the one public building on the list, and it gives the slope its parish name.
What is the history of Cashmere?
Cracroft House left its servants' quarters. The former block survives from the estate it served, and the houses recorded around it, Ngaio Marsh House and Holbury among them, stand on the slope above the southern edge of Christchurch. Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church served the households that settled this rising ground.
The suburb has stayed residential, held apart from the flat city by the shoulder of the Port Hills it sits on.
Where is Cashmere?
The suburb takes the rising ground on the north side of the Port Hills, at the southern edge of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island.
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Updated September 2026