Riccarton House & Bush

Here is the 2nd entry in my notable places around Christchurch series. This past Sunday on my way to school to do work, I stopped off at the Riccarton House & Bush. The Maori name for the site is Putaringamotu, the place of echo. It was home to Canterbury's Scottish pioneers the Deans. On the site is the Riccarton House, Deans Cottage (the oldest remaining building in the Canterbury plains), and an ancient forest of kahikatea trees. It is Canterbury's only remaining part of the kahikatea floodplain forest. Also present on the site are giant oak trees the Deans planted to remind them of their Scottish home.

Riccarton House

Deans Cottage

Kahikatea Loop Track