{"id":290,"date":"2021-04-23T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:37:59","slug":"dallington-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/dallington-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallington | History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Formerly Dudley\u2019s Creek and Broom Farm. Named after John Dudley (1808-1861) and his farm. He was a son of the Rev. Edward Dudley, Rector of Broom, Staffordshire.<br>Re-named Dallington. Named by Henry Joseph Campbell Jekyll (1844-1913).<br>John Dudley bought Rural Section 183, 100 acres on the \u201cAvon, North Bank\u201d from the Canterbury Association in 1851, calling it Broom Farm.<br>His estate auctioned the property in 1879, advertising it as a \u201cvaluable estate situated close to Christchurch, beautifully situated and in every way fitted up for the occupation of a family\u201d.<br>Henry Jekyll bought the property and changed its name to Dallington, naming it after a family estate in Northamptonshire.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/PlaceNames\/ChristchurchPlaceNames-A-M.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/PlaceNames\/ChristchurchPlaceNames-A-M.pdf<\/a>, Pg 91<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly Dudley\u2019s Creek and Broom Farm. Named after John Dudley (1808-1861) and his farm. He was a son of the Rev. Edward Dudley, Rector of Broom, Staffordshire.Re-named Dallington. Named by Henry Joseph Campbell Jekyll (1844-1913).John Dudley bought Rural Section 183, 100 acres on the \u201cAvon, North Bank\u201d from the Canterbury Association in 1851, calling it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/dallington-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dallington | History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}