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Waimate is a relaxed Edwardian town settled in the 1850s because of the fertile land of the surrounding district. The town still has the wide streets, churches and other buildings from the era, including a thatched ‘cuddy’ that Michael Studholme build as an early European settler in 1854.
Waimate markets itself most notably on being the shortest route between Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown. The nearby White Horse monument remembers the contribution that the Clydesdale horse made in the development of the fertile farming district.
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