Cheviot Kingdom to County. First Edition. By John Wilson

Cheviot Kingdom to County by John Wilson.

Publisher: Cheviot Historical Society Book Cttee 1993 First edition. Includes loosely inserted leaflet of foot notes.

Very good hardback with jacket, binding firm, some minor bumping and marks to boards, name to half-title page, pages excellent, minor marks. Jacket has some light shelf-wear with some fading. 328 pages, illustrated.

Cheviot was put on the map in the mid 1800s when Cheviot hills estate was established by William "Ready Money" Robinson. Robinson's run stretched from the Hurunui River to the Waiau River, out to the Pacific coast and to the Lowry Hills in the west - a total of 33,600 hectares. In 1893, the Government bought Cheviot Hills and divided the estate into smaller ballot farms to break the hold large run owners had on the fledgling nation's rural land. Tells the story of Cheviot from the time of Maori occupation, through the years of the great runs and estates, and on to the period of family farms.

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