At Waipori the mines have closed down, the stores are shut and the townsfolk long ago departed. Yet something important remains: names that link to the community and the landscape.
David Still compiled a directory of place names that he and Euan and Kathleen Warburton came across in their exploration of the area. We’ve just published this on our website as a resource for the future.
Fiddlers Creek, Bakery Point, Deadman’s Gully. They’re a window into the past of this long-gone community. You can read more here.