Somerset Heights

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{{Infobox New Zealand suburbs

| name = Somerset Heights

| image = SomersetHeightsHamilton.jpg

| caption1 = Somerset Heights, with Mount Pirongia on the horizon.

| city1 = Hamilton, New Zealand

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| ward = Hamilton East

| established =2000

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{{Adjacent place

| centre = Somerset Heights

| north =Horsham Downs

| northeast =

| east =Puketaha

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| south =Huntington

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| west =Rototuna

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Somerset Heights is a suburb in north-eastern Hamilton in New Zealand,{{cite web|url=http://hamilton.co.nz/maps/ListMaps.aspx|title=Hamilton Map|work=Hamilton City Council|accessdate=18 September 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923025338/http://hamilton.co.nz/maps/ListMaps.aspx|archivedate=23 September 2010}} often known as Huntington,{{Cite web|url=http://ketehamilton.peoplesnetworknz.info/hamilton_streets/topics/show/765-buchanan-place|title=Buchanan Place|last=|first=|date=|website=ketehamilton.peoplesnetworknz.info|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}} or Rototuna. The name Rototuna is also often used to include Grosvenor, Callum Brae, Huntington and St James.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lodge.co.nz/Suburb-Profiles/Rototuna|title=Discover Rototuna Properties Hamilton - Lodge Real Estate|website=www.lodge.co.nz|access-date=2020-04-14}} Somerset Heights forms part of Te Manatu census area.{{Cite web|url=http://statsnz.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6f49867abe464f86ac7526552fe19787|title=ArcGIS Web Application|website=statsnz.maps.arcgis.com|access-date=2020-04-14}}

In 2000 Somerset Heights Ltd got consent for 107 houses on {{Convert|13.1|ha||abbr=on}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/community/whats-happening/news/media-releases-archived/regional-council-grants-subdivision-consents/|title=Regional Council grants subdivision consents|last=|first=|date=30 Nov 2000|website=www.waikatoregion.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}} Buchanan Place and Westbury Mews were named by Somerset Heights Joint Venture in 2002, using classical English names.{{Cite web|url=http://ketehamilton.peoplesnetworknz.info/hamilton_streets/topics/show/2145-westbury-mews|title=Westbury Mews|last=|first=|date=|website=ketehamilton.peoplesnetworknz.info|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}} A transmission line was taken down and replaced by a cable under Barrington Drive to allow Somerset Heights to be built.{{Cite web|url=https://haveyoursay.hamilton.govt.nz/parks-and-open-space/te-manatu-mangaiti-park-consultation/user_uploads/te-manatu-mangaiti-concept-plan-stage-2-consultation-submissions-september-2015-1.pdf|title=Te Manatu-Mangaiti concept plan stage 2 consultation submissions|last=|first=|date=Sep 2015|website=Hamilton City Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

The Thomas Homestead at 219 Gordonton Road was built in 1929 on {{Convert|100|acre||abbr=on}}, part of which is now Somerset Heights.

The Rototuna Circular bus has provided a half hourly service through the area{{Cite web|url=https://www.busit.co.nz/hamilton-routes/rototuna-circular/|title=Rototuna Circular|last=|first=|date=|website=www.busit.co.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}} since 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/community/whats-happening/news/media-releases/improved-bus-services-roll-out-on-eastern-hamilton-routes/|title=Improved bus services roll out on eastern Hamilton routes|last=|first=|date=24 Jan 2018|website=www.waikatoregion.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}}

Waikato Waldorf school{{Cite web|url=http://waikatowaldorf.school.nz/send-us-an-email-or-come-visit-our-beautiful-campus-in-north-hamilton-nz/|title=contact & map|last=|first=|date=|website=Waikato Waldorf - Primary & Junior High Schools, Childcare & Kindergarten|language=en-NZ|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-14}} and Te Manatu Park are on the edge of Somerset Heights.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hamilton.govt.nz/our-council/consultation-and-public-notices/haveyoursay/Documents/D-2045767%20%20Te%20Manatu%20Park%20Concept%20Plan%20amended%20following%20consultation%20no%20sportsfields.pdf|title=TE MANATU PARK CONCEPT PLAN|last=|first=|date=2 Feb 2016|website=Hamilton City Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

Alligator weed was a problem in the Somerset Heights sediment pond, requiring it to be dredged in September 2005.{{Cite web|url=http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/EWTR2005_38.pdf|title=Technical Report 2005/38 Alligator Weed Control|last=|first=|date=2005|website=Environment Waikato|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} Somerset Heights is at the head of Kirikiriroa gully, where cabbage trees, grey willow, hawthorn, Astelia grandis, whekiponga and ferns grow. The area covered wooded sites increased due to vegetation restoration, such as that around the pond.{{Cite web|url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/6565/CBER_121.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=Key Ecological Sites of Hamilton City Volume I|last=Toni S. Cornes, Rachel E. Thomson, Bruce D. Clarkson|date=31 May 2012|website=University of Waikato|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}