Glentunnel
Sign in to saveGlentunnel (known as Surveyors Gully until 1875) is a village located in the Selwyn District of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.
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- 1800s–2000s
- 2000–2010
- 2010 Canterbury earthquake
- 2020s–present
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Glentunnel (known as Surveyors Gully until 1875) is a village located in the Selwyn District of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.
It has a close historical association with coal, clay and sand mines of the Malvern area. Originally named ‘Surveyors Gully’, Glentunnel, derived from the tramway tunnel in the glen that gave access to the Homebush coal mine. Coal was discovered in 1871, along with deposits of fine clay, which lead to the establishment of a brick, tile and pottery works that survived until the 1980s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glentunnel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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