Plimmerton

The township of Plimmerton is adjacent to one of the more congenial beaches in the northwest part of the Wellington urban area of Porirua in New Zealand. Its population (including Hongoeka Bay) at the 2006 census was 2058, little changed from 2052 in both the 1996 and 2001 counts. The area was first settled by the Māori people early in their occupation of New Zealand, and the major Taupo Pa was nearby. In the 1840s it was the home of Te Rauparaha, who was captured by the British in Plimmerton in 1846. Near the southern end of Motuhara Road, a tiny historic reserve contains a cabbage tree that may be descended from the one he was said to have been captured near, and a plaque. The original laying-out of streets and naming was done for the...