page_title: Kaikorai Valley
section_title: Bradford
hierarchical_section_title: Kaikorai Valley / Bradford
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of memorial rongo stone, Andersons Bay, Dunedin, New Zealand.
context_page_description: Kaikorai Valley is a long broad valley which runs through the west of the New Zealand city of Dunedin, 5 kilometres to the west of the city centre. It is the valley of a small stream, the Kaikorai Stream, which runs from northeast to southwest down the length of the valley.
  The valley provides a route into central Dunedin which avoids the steep climb and descent over Lookout Point into Caversham, instead allowing for a gradual climb to the top of Stuart Street at Roslyn before a steep drop into the heart of the city. The valley contains several suburbs, largely isolated from the city centre by the ridge which forms the valley's eastern edge. This ridge was part of the crater wall of the long-extinct Dunedin Volcano.
  The valley is largely occupied by light industrial and wholesale businesses. Much of the land to the west of the valley is semi-rural; the eastern wall contains residential properties.
  The valley is home to three distinct suburbs: Kaikorai, Bradford, and Kenmure, while a fourth suburb, Burnside, lies at the valley's mouth, close to the junction of Kaikorai Valley Road and the Dunedin Southern Motorway, part of State Highway 1.
context_section_description: Bradford is a smaller, more ill-defined suburb lying in the centre of the Kaikorai Valley and in a small series of streets which lie immediately to its west. Like other parts of the lower valley, it contains numerous commercial properties such as wholesalers and car yards. Bradford Primary school lies in the suburb, which is named after Bradford in Yorkshire, England, because of its important textile mill industry.
  A road junction close to the boundary of Bradford and Kaikorai close to the former mills links Kaikorai Valley Road with Stone Street, which rises rapidly to the east to meet the ridge at Belleknowes. A disused quarry is a notable feature on this road.
caption: The former Roslyn Woollen Mill buildings in Bradford
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