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Encyclopedia > Methven

Methven is a town in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located near the western edge of the Canterbury Plains 35 kilometres north of Ashburton.


It is a rural service town and also offers accommodation in the winter for skiers from the nearby Mount Hutt skifield.


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Early Methven and Methuens (2901 words)
John de Methven was appointed one of the ambassadors extraordinary to the court of England.
He sold the castle of Methven and part of the lands to John, the Duke of Albany, which on the forfeiture of Duke Murdock in 1425, was passed to the Crown.
Andrew de Methven was appointed a commissioner in a perambulation of the marches between the Cambuskenneth and Sir David Bruce of Clackmannan in 1505.
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