Eyreton
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Eyreton, originally known as Eyretown, is a small village in the
Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is named after Edward John Eyre, who at one time was the lieutenant governor of the South Island (then known as New Munster). It is a rural village located to the west of Kaiapoi, near the north bank of the Waimakariri River
.
Although a
railway called the Eyreton Branch existed, it never actually ran through Eyreton; its route from Kaiapoi to West Eyreton
passed north of the village.
Demographics
Eyreton is part of the wider Swannanoa-Eyreton statistical area.[1]