Upper Hutt is a city and territorial authority of New Zealand located within the Wellington Region, on the southern coast of the North Island.
Initially inhabited by the Māori, it was acquired by British settlers as part of the 1839 Port Nicholson Purchase Deed.
Settlers moved into the valley in the late 1840s, with a small town forming in the area by the 1850s.
Initially a small farming community, it was connected to Wellington by the Wairarapa Line in the mid-1870s.
[4] The historic area, the Remutaka Incline Rail Trail, crosses into part of neighbouring South Wairarapa District.