Hoon Hay

Hoon Hay
Suburb
Coordinates: 43°34′0″S 172°36′30″E / 43.56667°S 172.60833°E / -43.56667; 172.60833Coordinates: 43°34′0″S 172°36′30″E / 43.56667°S 172.60833°E / -43.56667; 172.60833
Country New Zealand
City Christchurch
Population (2001)[1]
  Total 4,826
Postcodes 8024, 8025

Hoon Hay is an outer suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, lying approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southwest of Cathedral Square, close to the Port Hills. It is named after a village in Derbyshire.

Hillmorton and Spreydon lie to the north. Somerfield is to the east and Cashmere to the southeast. The hill suburb of Westmorland was developed to the south during the 1980s. To the west lies farmland then Halswell.

Hoon Hay valley is a rural valley approximately 2 km southwest of the suburb. Cashmere Stream, a tributary of the Heathcote River, flows down the valley.

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