Cheviot, New Zealand

Cheviot is a town in the Hurunui district in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located about 60 kilometers north of the district capital Amberley and about 90 kilometers south of Kaikoura on the east coast to the Pacific Ocean. In census 2006 390 inhabitants were counted.

Location and surroundings

The village was named after the nearby Cheviot Hills whose name derives from the same group of hills between England and Scotland. In addition to several churches can be visited including the Cheviot museum that displays an exhibition on the history of settlement.

State Highway 1 runs through the city and the railway Main North Line passes close to her. A breakpoint at which the train TranzCoastal makes on his journey from Picton to Christchurch station is located west in the vorörtlichen settlement Mina.

Another breakpoint was originally a little further south near the Hurunui River in the small railroad town Domett, which was Alfred Domett, the fourth Prime Minister of New Zealand, named. He was taken in 1907 in operation, but closed down in 1982. The dilapidated station building was added in 1996, faithfully restored and reopened as a mainline station café. The restaurant with an adjacent gift shop comes up with all sorts of memorabilia to railway history.

In the southeast are the suitable for surfing beach of Gore Bay and the historic port area of ​​Port Robinson, which was used by William Robinson, a former businessman and landowner in Cheviot, for freight transport in the 19th century. The area around the port closed in 1908, however, is difficult to access due to the erosion and it can only be the former Kai recognize.

To the north it first hits the St. Anne 's Lagoon and continue in this direction to the settlement Parnassus, in which since the 1930s there is a bridge over the Waiau River. The old design has since been replaced by a new one. On 16 November 1901, the epicenter of the Cheviot earthquake in this area, which caused severe in the Canterbury region damage was (among other things broke in Christchurch about 100 kilometers away, once again, the spire of Christchurch Cathedral from ) and a death toll.

External links and sources

  • Cheviot, Official Website
  • Port Robinson, North Canterbury
  • Hurunui Tourism, Cheviot and Gore Bay
List of towns in New Zealand Districts of New Zealand Canterbury (Region) Amberley, New Zealand New Zealand State Highway 1 Picton, New Zealand Waiau River (Canterbury)
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