Horotane Valley Road – Named because it runs through the Horotane Valley. Named by John Flinders Scott (1876-1941), a pastoral farmer, who subdivided land in this area. First mentioned in The Press in 1933.
Not much information from the library website and Papers Past didn’t have much either. This is a huge market garden area and there were several large glasshouses up this valley. There were also several large flash houses but it was impossible to get photos as you will be able to tell from my photos. I think that it will be obvious that I found a letterbox that I liked and one property had some great garden decorations. A second property had a lovely garden but again difficult to get photos.
Again Gordon Ogilvie’s book has great information and I am so pleased that I purchased this book. Horotane most likely translates as ‘the place of the tumbling man’ and apparently there was also a race horse with this name in the 1920s. The names connected to this valley are George Leslie Lee, Major Hornbrook and R M Morten. Some of the land was sold to John Flinders Scott of Heathcote in 1909 and he subdivided the land into sections for fruit farms and market gardens. There is mention in the book about a secret munitions plant on the property of Ronald Bickerton during 1941.The other thing mentioned was a devastating snow storm of 1945.
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