Brightwater
Sign in to saveBrightwater (Māori: Wairoa) is a town southwest of Nelson in Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It stands on the banks of the Wairoa River. Brightwater was first named Spring Grove. Alfred Saunders, the owner of a local flax mill situated on the banks of the Wairoa River and a prominent temperance activist, renamed it Brightwater because of the clarity of the water in Wairoa River. The settlement was named in 1855, but the area was settled as early as 1843.
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- Brightwater
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- Wairoa
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- Town
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- Brightwater Rutherford Monument 004.JPG
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- Ernest Rutherford memorial
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- yes
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- 11
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- Country
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- New Zealand
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- Territorial authority
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- Tasman
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- Ward
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- Moutere-Waimea Ward
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- Territorial Authority
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- Tasman District Council
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- Mayor of Tasman
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- West Coast-Tasman MP
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- 2250
- Elevation
- 33
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Brightwater (Māori: Wairoa) is a town southwest of Nelson in Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It stands on the banks of the Wairoa River. Brightwater was first named Spring Grove. Alfred Saunders, the owner of a local flax mill situated on the banks of the Wairoa River and a prominent temperance activist, renamed it Brightwater because of the clarity of the water in Wairoa River. The settlement was named in 1855, but the area was settled as early as 1843.
Brightwater was the birthplace of Nobel Prize-winning scientist, the "father of nuclear physics", Ernest Rutherford, and has an elaborate Lord Rutherford Birthplace memorial on Lord Rutherford Road.
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