Doyleston
Sign in to saveDoyleston is a minor Canterbury town in the South Island of New Zealand. It was named after Joseph Hastings Doyle, a publican from Christchurch who moved to the locality. Doyleston promised to be one of the main townships in the Ellesmere area, but before long Leeston overtook it and some businesses moved there. Doyleston had a school for many years, but it consolidated with Leeston School in the late 1930s.
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Vinony's link graph records 79 inbound references to Doyleston, and connects out to Darfield, Springfield and Arthur's Pass.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Populated places in the Canterbury Region, Selwyn District and Use New Zealand English from December 2015.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- Selwyn District
- Population
- 340
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Doyleston is a minor Canterbury town in the South Island of New Zealand. It was named after Joseph Hastings Doyle, a publican from Christchurch who moved to the locality. Doyleston promised to be one of the main townships in the Ellesmere area, but before long Leeston overtook it and some businesses moved there. Doyleston had a school for many years, but it consolidated with Leeston School in the late 1930s.
Doyleston featured a hall on the main street (the second on the site), but partly due to a car crash it was pulled down, making way for new housing. Doyleston's main attraction now is Osborne Park, which has been the centre for junior football in Ellesmere for a number of years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doyleston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations