Wallaceville is a suburb of Upper Hutt (located in the lower (southern) North Island of New Zealand).

[3] The suburb is home to the oldest surviving wooden blockhouse in New Zealand,[4] and is served by Wallaceville Railway Station.

The name of Wallaceville was first given to a township of 56 lots of about an acre each in the Mungaroa Valley that J. H. Wallace sold on 15 January 1868.

However, the name survived and was given to the suburban area developing between the Upper Hutt town centre and the Wallaceville road.

[12] A public house that stood at the corner of what is now Fergusson Drive and Ward Street had a variety of names, including Highland Home, Railway Hotel, and Trentham Hotel before being named Quinn's Post by licensee Richard Quinn, as a tribute to the heroism of the ANZACs at Gallipoli, as recounted by his brother in a letter home from the front line.

Born in Scotland, Gilruth had been recruited by the New Zealand Government to take charge of the Veterinary Division of the then recently formed Department of Agriculture.

Although a small section was retained for the National Centre for Biosecurity, the main site closed in 2007; the majority of research functions being relocated.

With some foresight, specimen Totara trees were left and Elms and Oaks were planted along the road frontage, most of which still remain over 100 years later.

Heretaunga College is a co-educational state secondary school for Year 9 to 13 students,[18] with a roll of 838 as of November 2024.