Kyeburn

Kyeburn is a small settlement in Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies on the Maniototo, a wide, high plain stretching from the end of the Strath-Taieri valley.

Kyeburn stands at the junction of State Highways 85 ("The Pigroot") and 87, some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Ranfurly, on the Kyeburn Stream, a minor tributary of the Taieri River.^[1] The stream's name, from which the settlement gets its name, is one of those within "Thomson's Barnyard", an area dotted with northern English farmyard animal names, all given by early Otago surveyor John Turnbull Thomson. The area was, in its early years of settlement, called Cows Creek. ("kye" is a Northumbrian term for cows).^[2]

The area around Kyeburn was a busy mining location during the latter part of the Otago Gold Rush, with the mining settlement of Kyeburn Diggings (sometimes called Upper Kyeburn) located some 10 kilometres to the north of Kyeburn itself.^[1]

References

1 2 Wise's New Zealand guide (1969) Dunedin: H. Wise & Co. pp. 129–130.
↑ Reed, A.W. (1975) Place names of New Zealand. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed. pp. 123 and 219

Towns and communities in the Central Otago District

Alexandra Ward	Alexandra Bridge Hill Butcher's Gully Conroys Gully Galloway Letts Gully Springvale

Cromwell Ward	Bannockburn Bendigo Cornish Point Cromwell Lindis Pass Lowburn Mount Pisa Northburn Pisa Moorings Queensberry Tarras

Earnscleugh-Manuherikia Ward	Becks Blackmans Blackstone Hill Chatto Creek Clyde Earnscleugh Fruitlands Lauder Little Valley Omakau Ophir Poolburn Saint Bathans

Maniototo Ward	Danseys Pass Idaburn Kyeburn Kyeburn Diggings Naseby Oturehua Paerau Patearoa Ranfurly Waipiata Wedderburn

Roxburgh Ward	Coal Creek Flat Dumbarton Ettrick Lake Roxburgh Millers Flat Raes Junction Roxburgh Teviot

Coordinates: 45°8′48″S 170°15′24″E / 45.14667°S 170.25667°E / -45.14667; 170.25667

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