Alicetown


Alicetown is a central suburb of Lower Hutt located at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand.
The suburb is situated north of the major suburb of Petone and west of the Lower Hutt CBD. Its boundaries are the Ewen Bridge that crosses the Hutt River, New Zealand to the east, the Western Hutt Rd/Melling Railway track to the west, Wakefield St/Hutt Railway track to the south and Railway Ave to the north.

History and culture

Aglionby, on what is now Tama Street, became the first European settlement in the Hutt Valley in 1840. The Aglionby Arms, the valley's first hotel, was built in Alicetown in 1840 and relocated in 1847. Alicetown began as a farming settlement and was settled from the early 1900s by Petone factory workers.
Alicetown was named for Alice Maud Fitzherbert, the daughter of mayor William Fitzherbert who married Professor George William von Zedlitz in 1905.
Te Tatau o Te Pō Marae was established in Alicetown in 1933. It is a marae of Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika and Te Āti Awa and includes Te Tatau o Te Pō wharenui.

Education

Alicetown has two schools:
The nearest state intermediate school is Hutt Intermediate School, and the nearest state secondary school is Hutt Valley High
School, both across the Hutt River in neighbouring Woburn.