Sanson, New Zealand

Sanson is a small town in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region in the south of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 7 km southeast of Bulls and 5 km southeast of the Rangitikei River, the city of Palmerston North is located 24 kilometers by road south-east. The next place on SH 1 south-west is Carnarvon.

In Sanson two national highways, State Highway 1 and State Highway 3 meet run from here to Bulls over six kilometers together. From 1885 to 1945, the Sanson Tramway joined the site in a southerly direction to the in Himatangi running, closed today Foxton Branch and thus the New Zealand rail network.

Before school of Sanson, the Sanson Gate, a memorial for the fallen soldiers of World War 1 twelve is. It was inaugurated on 31 August 1924. The school itself is a primary school and in January 2011 had 39 students.

The place is often mistakenly known as Sandon. The reason is that Sanson evolved from a much larger trading estate, which was sold as the " Township of Sandon ". The application process for the site of the present-day village was 1868. 1871 was Sandon and the surrounding parcels surveyed and the development began. The name was given to the city by Henry Sanson, secretary of the Hutt Small Farms Association, which had acquired the area around Sanson and Carnarvon, with about 2,000 hectares to the division into farms.

Today Sanson is a small village, which primarily supplies the travelers on the highways. In the village there are several cafes, shops for crafts and antiques.