Greta Valley

Greta Valley looking toward the intersection with New Zealand State Highway 1

Greta Valley is a small town 83 km north of Christchurch, New Zealand. It was named after the Greta River in Yorkshire by local runholders Sir Charles Clifford and Sir Frederick Weld in the 1850s, but it is to the east of the Greta River and on the south bank of the Waikari River.^[1]

Places of interest

Greta Valley School - Local District School

References

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↑ Discover New Zealand:A Wises Guide (9th ed.). 1994. p. 380.

Towns in the Hurunui District, Canterbury, New Zealand

Main Towns	Amberley (seat) Cheviot Culverden Hanmer Springs Waiau Waipara

Minor towns	Domett Greta Valley Hawarden Leithfield Motunau Omihi Parnassus Rotherham Waikari

Localities	Amberley Beach Balcairn Balmoral Beckenham Hills Blythe Valley Boyle Village Broomfield Caverhill Claverley Conway Flat Davaar Engineers Camp Ferniehurst Glasnevin Gore Bay Hawkswood Horsley Down Hurunui Hundalee Lake Sumner Leamington Leithfield Beach Lewis Pass Marble Point Masons Flat Medbury Mina Motunau Beach Mount Lyford Mouse Point Napenape Nonoti Pahau Phoebe Port Robinson Pyramid Valley Scargill Spotswood Spye Teviotdale The Peaks Virginia Weka Pass

Coordinates: 42°57′50″S 172°58′04″E / 42.9638°S 172.9677°E / -42.9638; 172.9677

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