Presbytery of Central Otago - Alteration of Place Names

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)	Past Name (1)	Present Name (2)
Dalhousie	Tuapeka Mouth	Dunkeld	Beaumont
Horseshoe Bend	Rigney's	Bastings	Rae's Junction
Bengerburn	Ettrick	Speargrass Flat	Fruitlands
Bald Hill Flat	Fruitlands	Manuherikia	Alexandra
Eight Mile	Conroy's Gully	Dunstan	Clyde
Kawarau	Cromwell	Millers Flat (Queenstown)	Wharehaunui
Five Mile	Lowburn	Wakefield	Bendigo
Newcastle	Albert Town	Pembroke	Wanaka
Blacks	Ophir	Rough Ridge	Oturehua
Poolburn Gorge	Auripo	Morley's Pass	Thomson's Gorge
Tinkers	Matakanui	Glassford's	Drybread
Welshman's Gully	Cambrian	Dunstan Creek	St Bathan's
Hogburn	Naseby	Eweburn	Ranfurly
Capburn	Tiroiti	Blair Taieri	Middlemarch

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