Presbytery of Central Otago - Alteration of Place Names

The names of many places within the Presbytery of Central Otago have changed over the years. Although this may not always affect Church records, this list may still prove useful in highlighting the locations referred to in church and civil records.

Past Name (1)
Present Name (2)
Dalhousie
Tuapeka Mouth
Horseshoe Bend
Rigney's
Bengerburn
Ettrick
Bald Hill Flat
Fruitlands
Eight Mile
Conroy's Gully
Kawarau
Cromwell
Five Mile
Lowburn
Newcastle
Albert Town
Blacks
Ophir
Poolburn Gorge
Auripo
Tinkers
Matakanui
Welshman's Gully
Cambrian
Hogburn
Naseby
Capburn
Tiroiti
Dunkeld
Beaumont
Bastings
Rae's Junction
Speargrass Flat
Fruitlands
Manuherikia
Alexandra
Dunstan
Clyde

Millers Flat (Queenstown)

Wharehaunui
Wakefield
Bendigo
Pembroke
Wanaka
Rough Ridge
Oturehua
Morley's Pass
Thomson's Gorge
Glassford's
Drybread
Dunstan Creek
St Bathan's
Eweburn
Ranfurly
Blair Taieri
Middlemarch
Sowburn
Patearoa

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