Castlecliff, Wanganui, New Zealand 🌍


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Castlecliff:

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11980, 7 May 1894, Page 2

EARLY WANGANUI.
... Mr S. Hentson started a brickyard at the lower end of Wilson-street, and carried it on for many years. A windmill and a distillery were started near Castlecliff, and a small schooner was built at the mouth of the Tutaeheka stream just below Mr Field's house.
There are a few references to "Windmill Gully" as being an alternative name for the Pinnacles in Castlecliff (and by extension, that has given its name to a species of muscle found there 'Botula (Notobotula) molina'), and there is a road called "Mill Road" that crosses the hillside of Castlecliff.



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