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May 7, 2024 · The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were moa hunters, who probably arrived there as early as AD 1000. The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off.
WELCOME TO THE CHRISTCHURCH HISTORY SOCIETY. The Society organises ten evening meetings a year, with talks on topics usually involving local history. It organises visits and guided walks and attends community events. The Society is the custodian of the Christchurch Archive, some 20,000 documents, photos and maps, on which a group of volunteers ...
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1856 Christchurch became a City by Royal Charter on the 31st July this was because it was the ‘seat’, or base, for a bishop. In 1859, Yorkshireman Enoch Barker came to Christchurch as government gardener.
The site was significant during prehistoric times; Late Bronze–Early Iron Age trade with the European continent apparently focused on nearby Hengistbury Head and Christchurch. The town’s original name, Twineham, long survived in the form Cristechurch Twynham. Its first charter was granted about 1150. A Norman constable’s house has been ...
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The name Christchurch was given to the city in 1848 when some crusty British blokes from the Canterbury Association decided to name their settlement after a college in Oxford, England. They also...
Oct 1, 2016 · New Zealand's oldest established city, and second-largest today, Christchurch was named by British settlers in the 1840s. Its first inhabitants, though were probably hunters of the 13th century. In the 16th century, the Waitaha tribe of the North Island moved in, and 'possession' of the area passed between several warring factions before the ...
around 550 (it had been higher, when settlers first disembarked from the immigrant ships). By the early 1860s Christchurch had indisputably taken over from Lyttleton as Canterbury’s chief town. At this time in Christchurch most people lived within the boundaries of Barbadoes, St Asaph, Salisbury and Antigua Streets.
