Hawksbury

Hawksbury also known as "Cherry Farm" (and sometimes erroneously as "Evansdale") is a small residential and industrial area beside State Highway 1 between Dunedin and Waikouaiti. Cherry Farm Hospital, a psychiatric hospital serving the Dunedin area opened here in 1952 and patients from Seacliff Mental Hospital at Seacliff were relocated here. Cherry Farm Hospital epitomised the village-asylum atmosphere in name and design, contrasting with the harsh conditions in the fortress-like Seacliff hospital. When the hospital closed in 1992, some patients were transferred to Wakari Hospital in Dunedin while others were re-housed in the community as part of a mainstreaming policy. One of the re-housing projects was the Hawksbury Community Living...