Ealing, New Zealand

Ealing

Ealing is a lightly populated rural locality on the bank of the Rangitata River in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.^[1] It has a community hall, a small combined Protestant faith church and a rural fire unit based in the centre of the town. Ealing was settled as a railway village in the 1870s whilst the Main South Line's bridge over the Rangitata River was being built. Along with the schools in nearby Lynnford and Maronan, the local school was shut due to population decline during the 1930s and students sent to the primary school in Hinds, a small nearby town to the northeast.^[2] The former school building is now the church. Ealing is more a common locality than a settlement, with the area being referred to as the "Ealing district". Each year a Guy Fawkes Night fireworks display and a Christmas party in Ealing District Hall are held to foster community spirit.

References

↑ "Place Name Detail: Ealing". New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
↑ Hinds School - About the School, accessed 21 March 2007

Coordinates: 44°03′S 171°25′E / 44.050°S 171.417°E / -44.050; 171.417

Towns of the Ashburton District, Canterbury, New Zealand

Major Towns	Ashburton Methven Rakaia Tinwald

Other Towns	Chertsey Ealing Fairton Hinds Lake Clearwater Lake Hood Mayfield Mount Somers Winslow

Localities	Acton Alford Forest Anama Ashburton Forks Ashburton Gorge Ashton Barhill Buccleuch Bushside Cairnbrae Carew Cavendish Coldstream Dorie Dromore Eiffelton Elgin Erewhon Flemington Greenstreet Hackthorne Hakatere (Gorge River mouth) Hatfield Highbank Huntingdon Kyle Lagmhor Lauriston Lismore Longbeach Lowcliffe Lyndhurst Lynnford Marawiti Maronan Mitcham Montalto Mount Hutt Mount Possession Newland Overdale Pendarves Punawai Rokeby Ruapuna Seafield Sherwood Somerton Springburn Staveley Urrall Valetta Wakanui Waterton Westerfield Wheatstone Willowby Winchmore Windermere

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