Morgans Valley in the suburb of Heathcote Valley, Christchurch

Morgans Valley in Heathcote and nothing on the library website. The following information is from Barrie Wood’s Heathcote Lovely Lanes Information – Morgans Valley was named after Captain William Morgan. Morgan was one of the pioneer settlers. His

home was still there in 1920 at the head of the valley. The house was built of Baltic pine and large slabs of Welsh slate brought from England. Morgans Valley has also previously been known as Scott’s Valley as it backed onto the JS Scott homestead in Bridle Path Road. Today Scotts Valley Reserve is to the south of Morgans Valley, above Birdsey Reserve.

Not much information on Papers Past and in the 1920s most entries were about rabbiting. In 1974 hang gliders were hoping to get permission to land on farmland in Morgans Valley. Flying hang gliders was banned in the Heathcote Valley.

Captain William Morgan didn’t stay in Heathcote for very many years and he moved to Kaiapoi where he died in 1875.

I was surprised that I hadn’t already walked this street for my project as I have geocached here. I found a geocache near the top of the street in 2017 and found another geocache in 2023. Most houses here date from 2000 with several built more recently. Some I liked and others I didn’t really like. There is one house that has a very interesting garden including a large sculpture of a horse. At the top of the street there is a gate blocking what I thought was a walkway. A sign about rockfall danger is on the gate. When I looked at street view from before the earthquakes there was a road leading to houses. These houses have all been demolished. There is another road that leads off the main road and I was half expecting it to have another name but it is still part of Morgans Valley. This one has also had the houses on the higher ground demolished. I actually quite liked the street. Great views from the top of the street.