Halswell is a satellite town of Christchurch, New Zealand, located in open country 9km southwest of Cathedral Square on State Highway 75. A residential town, it has little in the way of its own industry and acts as an outer dormitory satellite town.HistoryHalswell is named after Edmund Storr Halswell QC, a government officer and member of the management commission of the Canterbury Association. He arrived in New Zealand in 1841 and was appointed Commissioner of Native Reserves. The Māori name of Tai Tapu for the area is preserved in the name of a village located some 9km south of the centre of Halswell.OverviewUntil recently, Halswell was completely separated from the city geographically, but in recent years many new subdivisions have been created to the north of the suburb, creating the new suburbs of Oaklands and Westlake. These have effectively joined Halswell to the Christchurch urban area. The Halswell area is growing rapidly with subdivisions expanding the residential areas of Aidanfield to the north east, and The Rocks at the top of Kennedy’s Bush Road to the south, which is on a hill, with the rest of Halswell on the flat ground of the Canterbury Plains.The centre of the Halswell community is the Halswell School catering for boys and girls from the age of 5 up to 14. In 2011 the roll was 626 students and its decile rating was 10.
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