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Kōrero: Waikato places

Lichfield heritage

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Lichfield heritage

This small building made of rhyolite stone is one of the few relics of the 1880s, when Lichfield was a coach stop on the way to Rotorua. In the 2000s Lichfield was the centre of a farming district, and its Fonterra cheese factory was the largest in the southern hemisphere.

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Private collection

by Caren Wilton

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato places – Putaruru and Tīrau, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27355/lichfield-heritage (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 26 May 2010, updated 11 June 2015.