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 The
property is at present run by Jim and Sue Hore and their two sons
Charles and Andrew. When Linnburn Station was cut up in 1910 Charles
Hore, Jim's grandfather, drew Lot 13 which consisted of the Home
block of 7,000 acres and the Deep Creek block of 11,000 acres making
a total of 18,000 acres. In 1992 the Paerau Block of a further 550
acres was added.
The home block was named "Stonehenge"
by Charles's wife Rowena, presumably because of the schist rock
formations on the surrounding countryside, and originally stocked
with halfbred English Leicester sheep, then Lincoln halfbred ram
and Romney halfbreds prior to the introduction of Merinos in the
1960's.
 Many
of the blocks are named after rabbiters (Binny's Camp) and fencers
(Harris's) who worked the property in the early days or from local
landmarks such as the Finger Post, Pimple Block, Blackball, Birthday
Creek and Station Gully.
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The Home block is made up of mainly
undulating rolling hills and gullies and is located in the south
end of the Maniototo basin on the Styx-Patearoa Road and the Paerau
block situated adjacent to the Taieri River and old Styx jail. A
further 25 km to the south east is the Onslow Run or Deep Creek
with mostly rolling to strongly rolling hills dissected by step
sided rocky or bluffy gullies.
Access over the whole property is via good country
roads and farm tracks. Some stock work is still carried out on horseback,
with the majority of the work done by four-wheel drive vehicle or
motorbike.
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