Hutt Valley
The Hutt Valley (Hutt Valley) is the valley of the Hutt River in the Wellington region in New Zealand .
Because the Hutt Valley is comparatively flat, it is practically completely populated today. In the Hutt Valley are Upper Hutt (marked as 3 on the map) to the north and Lower Hutt (marked as 2) to the south . Like the Hutt River itself, the valley is named after William Hutt , a director of the New Zealand Company from the early colonial days.
The Hutt River lies roughly on an active fault line that continues in some volcanoes on the North Island of New Zealand and in the New Zealand Alps on the South Island . Therefore, the west bank of the river is steep, while two large flat flood plains have developed on the east bank. The upper one is 15–22 km from the mouth of the Hutt River. This is where Upper Hutt is. In the area of the southern area lies Lower Hutt. In between, the river cuts through the Taita Gorge.
Petone, the district of Lower Hutts, which lies directly on the Bay of Wellington, was the first settlement area in the entire region. However, this settlement, founded by the Wellington Company , was soon a victim of floods, and so the place Wellington was moved to what is now Thorndon, a district of today's Wellington. Only a small settlement was left, which was intended as the basis for a planned agricultural use of the Hutt Valley.
In 1846 there was some fighting between Māori and government forces in the Hutt Valley as part of the New Zealand Wars.
Numerous scenes from Lord of the Rings were also filmed in Hutt Valley , for example the battle for Hornburg in Helms Klamm.