Author(s): Cheryl McKercher & A Holland

Rotorua Books

The Egmont Village district is in the Atiawa tribal area, within the boundary of the Puketapu hapu. Egmont Village is situated 5 kilometres northwest of Inglewood, on Junction Road (State Highway 3) at the crossing of Egmont Road. Up until 1868 much of the Egmont Village district was covered in thick, standing bush. As a refuge for settlers, should there be skirmishes with Maori (part of the Taranaki Land Wars), in 1868 a blockhouse was build adjacent to the corner of Egmont and Junction Roads and was used in 1877 after Egmont Village residents petitioned for a school. A new school was build adjacent in 1879 and the blockhouse became the teacher's house. In November 2002 Cheryl McKercher (with the help of Ann Holland ) was approached to put a book together for the 125th Jubilee Celebration. In order to print original material substantially unaltered, the book presents a number of items of original work in chronological order under the three main headings of Early Settlers through to the 1940s, The Egmont Village School, and Egmont Village Businesses and Post War Development.