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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 ...
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 ...
30 August 1790 – Richard Barton, first European resident of Trentham, Upper Hutt (d. 1866) c. 1790 – Te Mamaku, Māori chief (d. ... Timeline of New Zealand history;
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.
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The Upper Hutt Blockhouse also known as the Wallaceville Blockhouse is a 19th-century American-style military blockhouse situated in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. One of very few such blockhouses built in New Zealand, it is preserved as a Category I historic place. [ 1 ]
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.
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.