Judgeford
Judgeford is a suburb of Porirua, a city near Wellington, New Zealand. The only buildings are a dog boarding place called Kennels and Cattery, a golf course and houses. The closest school is Pauatahanui School. There is a nearby church called Saint Albans Church, but it is in Pauatahanui not Judgeford.
Judgeford | |
|---|---|
Suburb | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Local authority | Wellington City Council |
| Electoral ward | Northern |
| Established | 1850s |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,080 |
| Cannons Creek | Pauatahanui | Akatarawa Valley |
| Grenada North |
  Judgeford  |
Moonshine Valley |
| Kelson | Haywards | Riverstone Terraces |
BRANZ, the Building Research Association of New Zealand headquarters is at the beginning of Moonshine Road near Judgeford.[1]
History
In the 1850s, immigrant settlers from England came to Judgeford. Most people farmed, and there were some sawmills. The area was originally called the Small Farms Settlement.[2]
The Judgeford School, sometimes called the Small Farms School, opened on 6 October 1879, with 29 children taught by Miss Georgina Chatwin. When it reopened after the 1934 summer holidays there were only 8 children, and the school closed on 10 May 1935 with the remaining pupils following other children in the area to the Pauatahanui School.[3]
In 1883 people started to call the suburb Judgeford because of an early settler called Alfred Judge who had built his house close to a river. Hence the name Judge's Ford was created, which soon changed into the name Judgeford.
In the 1890s a cooperative dairy business was established at the junction of Flightys Road and the Pauatahanui-Haywards Road by the Abbott and Galloway families. It was primarily a creamery where the milk was separated and the cream sent elsewhere to make butter or cheese, and operated for about 15 years until it burnt down in 1907.[4]
In World War II the US Marines had four camps in the Pauatahanui area; the Judgeford camp accommodated 3,755 men.[5]
Population
At the 2013 census, 1080 people lived in the Pauatahanui area unit, which includes Judgeford.[6]
References
Reilly, Helen (2013). Pauatahanui: A local history. Wellington: Pauatahanui Residents Association. ISBN 978-0-473-25439-1.
- "Building Research Association of New Zealand". BRANZ. 14 May 2015.
- Reilly 2013, pp. 45-46,78.
- Reilly 2013, pp. 62-63,135-136.
- Reilly 2013, pp. 92-93.
- Reilly 2013, p. 149.
- "2013 Census Usually Resident Population Counts – Statistics New Zealand". Stats.govt.nz. Retrieved 2 December 2013.