Ladbrooks Station (Canterbury) Traditional Cache
Ladbrooks Station (Canterbury)
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This is a very busy road at time so take extreme are with the cachelets and yourself. The cache is a mint tin so BYO pen.
William Ladbrook and his wife Eliza were the original settlers in this area and bought land here when it was little more than a swamp. Initially they bought 50 acres for 5 pounds per acre. The land was drained by digging trenches with a spade and laying Manuka brush in the trenches. Eventually they owned three of the four corners of the intersection of Birches and Robinsons Roads, including where the railway station was built.
The area was never called “Ladbrooks” while our family lived there, other than being the place “to which the railway had reached” in about 1875.
As you approach the Robinsons Road crossroads from Prebbleton, the site of the Ladbrooks station can be seen to your left with a loading bank still visible. If you turn left into Robinsons Road heading to Lincoln you will see Railway cottage on one of the letterboxes. I think this house you can see from GZ.
The Little River Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network. It diverged from the Southbridge Branch in Lincoln and ran down Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of the South Island. It was opened to Little River in 1886 and operated until 1962.
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