Middlehurst is a 16,723 ha high country property in the Awatere Valley, a close neighbour to Molesworth and some 114 km from Blenheim. In 1998 we purchased 5303 ha of freehold and a pastoral lease of 11,420 ha with 28 years to run on its current lease, running 7520 sheep stock units (su) and 3400 cattle su.