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Barrhill schoolhouse

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Barrhill schoolhouse

Little remains of the 19th-century town of Barrhill, which was laid out like an English village. One relic is the concrete schoolhouse.

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John Wilson, Canterbury places – Mid-Canterbury Plains, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10275/barrhill-schoolhouse (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 17 August 2015.