Richmond Hill, New Zealand

Richmond Hill is a hillside suburb above Sumner in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Two small buildings in Sumner, one of which belonged to Dobson and was located in Nayland Street (pencil sketch, 1865)

Richmond Hill is a volcanic spur extending from Mount Pleasant.^[1] The first European owner was Edward Dobson, who had a cottage in Nayland Street and whose 50 acres (20 ha) ran up the hill. Dobson kept 2 acres (0.81 ha) around his house and sold the remainder of his land to George Day. Upon Day's death, the land passed to his daughter, who sold it to the Morton brothers (Arthur and R. M. D.), and who in turn sold it to George Humphreys. The latter subdivided the land and had a road up the hill built by 1909.^[1] Walter de Thier managed Humphreys' farm on the hill and his favourite song was "The Lass of Richmond Hill", and with Humphreys' consent, the property was called Richmond Hill.^[2]

Humphreys was a leading businessman who lived at Daresbury in Fendalton.^[1] He was also a member of the Christchurch Golf Club and took pity of a group of men who regularly met in Sumner on an empty section for an improvised game of golf using hockey sticks, tennis balls, and tin cans sank into the ground as holes. He offered them 40 acres (16 ha) of his undulating land, on which the 12-hole Richmond Hill Golf Course opened in April 1910.^[3]

Due to the steepness of the road up from Nayland Street, the subdivision was slow to develop. There were just ten houses on Richmond Hill by 1930, and activity only picked up after the end of WWII. One of the early residents included the architect Cecil Wood.^[3] The golf course closed in December 1997 and some of the land was further subdivided.^[4]

Notes

1 2 3 Ogilvie 2009, p. 56.
↑ Harper, Margaret (20 February 2014). "Christchurch Place Names: N - Z" (PDF). Christchurch City Libraries. p. 42. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
1 2 Ogilvie 2009, p. 57.
↑ Ogilvie 2009, p. 58.

References

Ogilvie, Gordon (2009). The Port Hills of Christchurch (2nd ed.). Christchurch: Phillips & King Publishers. ISBN 978-0-9583315-6-2.

Suburbs of Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand

Main suburbs	Aranui Belfast Bishopdale Burnside Cashmere Central City Fendalton Halswell Hornby Linwood Merivale New Brighton Papanui Riccarton Shirley St Albans Sumner Sydenham Woolston

Minor suburbs	Addington Aidanfield Avondale Avonhead Avonside Barrington Beckenham Bexley Bottle Lake Bridgend Bromley Brooklands Broomfield Burwood Bryndwr Casebrook Chaneys Clifton Coutts Island Cracroft Dallington Edgeware Ferrymead Harewood Heathcote Valley Hei Hei Hillmorton Hillsborough Hoon Hay Huntsbury Hyde Park Ilam Islington Kainga Kennedys Bush Mairehau Marshland Masham Middleton Moncks Bay Mount Pleasant Murray Aynsley Hill North Linwood North New Brighton Northcote Northwood Oaklands Opawa Ouruhia Parklands Phillipstown Queenspark Redcliffs Redwood Richmond Richmond Hill Richmond South Russley St Andrews Hill St Martins Scarborough Sockburn Somerfield South New Brighton Southshore Spencerville Spreydon Stewarts Gully Strowan Styx Taylors Mistake Upper Riccarton Waimairi Beach Wainoni Waltham Westlake Westmorland Wigram Yaldhurst

Settlements of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand

Settlements	Allandale Akaroa Ataahua Barrys Bay Birdling's Flat Cass Bay Charteris Bay Chorlton Church Bay Cooptown Corsair Bay Diamond Harbour Duvauchelle French Farm Gebbies Pass Gebbies Valley Governors Bay Hilltop Kaituna Valley Kukupa Lansdowne Le Bons Bay Little Akaloa Little River Lyttelton Motukarara Ohinetahi Okains Bay Okuti Valley Onuku Otanerito Bay Peraki Pigeon Bay Port Levy Puaha Puari Purau Rapaki Robinsons Bay Tai Tapu Takamatua Teddington Wainui

Port Hills suburbs	Cashmere Clifton Cracroft Ferrymead Halswell Heathcote Valley Hillsborough Hoon Hay Huntsbury Kennedys Bush Moncks Bay Mt Pleasant Murray Aynsley Hill Redcliffs Richmond Hill Scarborough St Andrews Hill Sumner Te Onepoto / Taylors Mistake Westmorland

Coordinates: 43°34′23″S 172°45′18″E / 43.573°S 172.755°E / -43.573; 172.755

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