[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.
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