Elsthorpe is a village in the Central Hawke's Bay District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located east of Ōtāne, Waipawa and State Highway 2 and west of the east coast.[1]
It began as a sheep station, named after Elsthorpe, a hamlet in the English county of Lincolnshire.[2] It is now a small settlement, supporting neighbouring sheep farms.[3] [4]
The local St Stephen's Chapel holds five services during the year under the oversight of St Luke's Anglican Church in Havelock North.[5] The village also features a memorial to Royal New Zealand Air Force helicopter pilot Flight Lieutenant William Waterhouse, who died in a Vietnam War training accident in Canberra in January 1969.[6]
The Elsthorpe and neighbouring Omakere rugby union teams were featured in a New Zealand television advertisement for coverage of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Elsthorpe School is a Year 1-8 co-educational state primary school.[7] It is a decile 9 school with a roll of as of [8]