Hoon Hay

{{Short description|Suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2021}}

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{{Infobox New Zealand suburbs

| name = Hoon Hay

| image = Port Hills burning.jpg

| caption1 = The 2017 Port Hills fires as viewed from Hoon Hay

| city1 = Christchurch

| council = Christchurch City Council

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| ward = {{ubl|Spreydon|Cashmere{{cite web |title=Wards, Councillors and Community Boards map |url=https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/how-the-council-works/elected-members/representation |website=ccc.govt.nz |publisher=Christchurch City Council |access-date=14 August 2020}}}}

| community_board = {{ubl|Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton|Waihoro Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote}}

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| coordinates = {{coord|43|34|0|S|172|36|30|E|region:NZ|display=inline,title}}

| area = 425

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| popref = {{NZ population data 2023 SA2||||y}}

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{{Adjacent place

| centre = Hoon Hay

| north = Spreydon

| northeast = Barrington

| east = Somerfield

| southeast = Cashmere

| south = Westmorland

| southwest = Halswell

| west = Aidanfield

| northwest = Hillmorton

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Hoon Hay is an outer suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located at the base of the Port Hills and about {{convert|5|km|mi|abbr=off}} southwest of Cathedral Square. The area was named by Captain Wickham Talbot Harvey, a captain of the British Royal 10th Hussars, who moved to the area in 1852 and named it after the farm in Hoon, Derbyshire where he grew up.{{cite web |title=Wickham Talbot Harvey |url=https://www.foncc.org.uk/burials/research/mj_harvey_3475.pdf |website=www.foncc.org.uk |publisher=Friends of Newport & Carisbrooke Cemeteries |access-date=22 August 2020}} Harvey only stayed in the area for four years, before a fire destroyed his property and prompted him to return to the United Kingdom. Further fires in the following years destroyed the woodland which was on the property, including several large tōtara, causing it to be converted into farmland.{{cite web |title=HOON HAY – Captain Wickham Talbot Harvey (1829 – 1889)|url=http://www.peelingbackhistory.co.nz/hoon-hay-captain-wickham-talbot-harvey-1829-1889/ |website=Peeling Back History |access-date=22 August 2020}} Remnants of this forest remain visible in the area, including with tree stumps being discovered during flood mitigation work on the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River.{{cite web |title=Flood work draws stumps from ancient Hoon Hay forest |url=https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/flood-work-draws-stumps-from-ancient-forest-in-hoon-hay-valley |website=newsline.ccc.govt.nz |publisher=Christchurch City Council |access-date=22 August 2020}}

Hoon Hay maintains aspects of both a rural and suburban surrounding. It is bordered by the suburbs of Hillmorton and Spreydon to the north, Somerfield and Cashmere to the east and Halswell to the southwest, along with new developments in the adjacent Port Hills. Despite this, the suburb is also bordered by farmland and the nearby Hoon Hay valley, maintaining the suburb as semi-rural. The Cashmere Stream, a tributary of the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River, that flows down the valley and through the suburb.