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===Surveying=== There is no record of Māori settlement in the vicinity of Stratford. Before [[British Empire|British]] settlement the area was covered in dense forest and swamp.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wagstaff |first1=Blyss |title=The King's Theatre |url=https://www.heritage.org.nz/list-details/9865/The%20King%E2%80%99s%20Theatre |website=[[Heritage New Zealand]] |date=9 September 2023}}</ref> The [[Julius Vogel|Vogel schemes]] of the 1870s provided the necessary impetus to lead to the construction of a [[railway line]] south of [[New Plymouth]], and the creation of road access at the same time, to open up access to the rich soils under the mountain. In 1876, [[Taranaki Waste Lands Board]] assistant surveyor [[Edwin Stanley Brookes, Jnr.]] cut a meridian line from Waitara to the site of Stratford, and oversaw the subdivision of a block between the Manganui River and the [[Pātea River]]. The surveying of a new site for a town on the banks of the [[Pātea River]] was authorised on 11 June 1877, and the northern half of the town (above the Pātea River) was laid out by [[William Skinner (surveyor)|William Skinner]] in July. More lots were laid out by [[Peter Cheal]] in 1879, and in 1880 Skinner was directed to survey the southern half of the town.
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