The summit of this 445-metre (1,460 ft) peak, which is topped by Wellington's main television transmitter tower, provides impressive views of the harbour.

The Khandallah village shopping centre in Ganges Road has a New World supermarket, restaurants, dairy and a pub as well as the Library and Town Hall.

[3] Box Hill was named after a sentry post that was established during the "Māori Scare" of 1846, near the present Anglican Church;[4] see Old Porirua Road.

The Khandallah Town Hall has a capacity of over 350 people, including 140 seats and 20 tables and has a stage, kitchen and gallery.

[11] Nairnville Recreation Centre features a multi-purpose sports hall suitable for basketball, netball, volleyball, and badminton.

[14] Nairnville Park and Recreation Centre are named after James and Louisa Nairn who owned farm land in the area.

[29] Khandallah is named after Khandela, Rajasthan,[30] or may be Khandala and supposedly means "Resting place of God" in an unspecified language.

Hence the suburb and those surrounding it have many place names connected with the Indian subcontinent; e.g. Calcutta Street, Ganges Road and Simla Crescent.

The name may have come from a homestead built in the area in 1884 by Captain James Andrew, who had recently returned from duty in India and had been consul in Baghdad.

[33] However, Edward Battersbee (also spelt Battersby) was listed in the 1864–1865 Province of Wellington electoral roll as living at Khandallah, Porirua Road on 23 April 1864 some 20 years earlier than Andrew.

[34] In addition Battersby had worked for the East India Company as a veterinary surgeon in the Bombay Light Cavalry, thereby making him the more likely originator of the suburb's name.

[38] Khandallah was largely farmland to the 1920s; James Nairn built a farmhouse in 1869 on the old Ngatoto Native Reserve, now Nairnville Park.