Hewaheta Explained

Official Name:	Hewaheta
Native Name:	Sinhala; Sinhalese: හේවාහැට
Settlement Type:	Village
Pushpin Label Position:	bottom
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Sri Lanka
Subdivision Name1:	Central Province
Subdivision Type2:	District
Unit Pref:	Imperial
Timezone:	Sri Lanka Standard Time
Utc Offset:	+5:30

Hewaheta is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.

Notable people

Charles Spearman Armstrong (1847–1924) was a pioneer in growing tea and cinchona in Sri Lanka at the Rookwood plantation, near Hewaheta, from 1864.^[1] His grandson Neville Armstrong was born there.^[2]

See also

• List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka

External links

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Notes and References

1. Royston Ellis, Rookwood: memories of a forgotten pioneer, The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), 7 September 1997, accessed 27 July 2021
2. Ian Miller, Other lives: Neville Armstrong, The Guardian, 26 September 2008, accessed 27 July 2021