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The Upper Hutt Blockhouse (Former), a Category 1 historic place in Upper Hutt. Upper Hutt is a city and territorial authority of New Zealand located within the Wellington Region, on the southern coast of the North Island. Initially inhabited by the Māori, it was acquired by British settlers as part of the 1839 Port Nicholson Purchase Deed ...
The Upper Hutt city centre lies approximately 26 km north-east of Wellington. [17] While the main areas of urban development lie along the Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River valley floor, the city extends to the top of the Remutaka Pass to the north-east and into the Akatarawa Valley and rough hill-country of the Akatarawa ranges to the north and north-west, almost reaching the Kāpiti Coast close ...
Golder Cottage is one of the oldest surviving colonial houses in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The house is used as a museum of colonial domestic life. John Golder, a road builder in Wellington, built the cottage in 1876–77. [1] Around the same time he married Jane Martin and together they raised 12 children in the house.
The Hutt Valley (or 'The Hutt') is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Like the river that flows through it, it takes its name from Sir William Hutt , a director of the New Zealand Company in early colonial New Zealand.
Wallaceville is a suburb of Upper Hutt (located in the lower (southern) North Island of New Zealand). It is named after John Howard Wallace, an early New Zealand settler, council politician, businessman and author of one of the first published histories of New Zealand.
Birchville Dam is believed to be the second unreinforced concrete arch dam built for water supply in New Zealand.It was built in 1930 for the Upper Hutt Borough Council to provide increased water capacity for the borough and replaced a water supply weir built in 1913–1914 at the same location on Clarke's Creek, near Birchville.
Whitemans Valley is a rural suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. Situated roughly 4 kilometers south of the Upper Hutt city centre, the area has a variety of farms and lifestyle blocks. The first settler to discover the valley was George Whiteman in 1846 while he was pig-hunting. [1]
In 1841, Richard Barton purchased 40 hectares (100 acres) of land in the upper Hutt Valley. [1] He modeled his development of his estate on that of Trentham in England, where he had been a supervisor of the estate. This meant part of the land was cleared for farming and settlement while some of it was left as natural bush land.