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Woburn, Lower Hutt

Ludlam Crescent

Named after Alfred Ludlam, a landowner in Woburn in 1845. Ludlam’s Gardens eventually became McNab’s then Bellevue. He was a local member of the Wellington Provincial Council 1853-61, 1865-76, General Assembly 1853-56, 1866-70, and ‘father” of the Wellington Botanic Garden. He had purchased the Waiwhetū farm from fellow pioneer Francis Molesworth in the mid-1840s, calling […]

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Woburn, Lower Hutt

Whites Line West

Thank you to Hutt City Libraries for sharing this information. Whites Line was the second road established in the Hutt Valley and the first road to slice across the Valley.  It’s now a major thoroughfare.   Some suggest it was called ‘Whites Line’ because it was an ‘aukati’ or ‘line which no (white) man could […]