Glenham

Living in Glenham

Glenham is a small Southland locality in the farming country of the Mataura Valley's southern reaches, where the river valley continues its southward passage through the flat productive land toward the coast. The name applies the glen-and-ham naming tradition of the British settlement era to a locality that has the flat, river-flat character of the Mataura's lower valley rather than the glen topography the name implies, a discrepancy that rural Southland's naming history produced reliably.

The farming around Glenham is the lower Mataura Valley model: dairy and sheep farming on the flat alluvial country that the valley's productive soils support, with the Mataura River providing both the drainage infrastructure and the fishing resource that the valley carries to the coast. The farming here runs the Southland agricultural plain's established operations, managed by the families who have farmed the valley through the district's agricultural evolution.

The permanent population is the farming families on the surrounding properties, with the nearest Southland service centres providing the schools, shops and community infrastructure. The Mataura River's fishing continues at this section, and the valley road connects the locality to the district's wider services.

Children from Glenham attend the nearest Southland district schools.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Glenham

Schools in zone for Glenham

Children living in Glenham have a guaranteed right to enrol at these schools, based on Ministry of Education home zones.

• Wyndham School

  Contributing · roll 131 · decile 6

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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