Nukuhau Pā is one of the best preserved pā sites on the Waikato. It is at the south end of Peacocke, beside the river.
Ngāti Mahuta may have been occupied it around 1700, after which
Ngati Raukawa conquered it, or it may have belonged to
Ngāti Ruru and been taken back by
Ngāti Māhanga. It was reported as abandoned about 1830, at the time of the
musket wars. After the 1863
invasion of the Waikato it was
confiscated. The land was acquired in 1868 by
Colonel de Quincy, who named it “Weston Lea” after his grandmother’s English home, near
Bath. In 1887, Fitzroy Peacocke, a son of
Captain Peacocke, bought the land from the Colonel, who was step-father of his wife, Florence Henrietta. and the farm was for sale 3 years later. Their son, Egerton Peacocke, took on the farm in 1905 and cleared much of the bush to form a dairy farm. His brother Noel, an architect, designed a new homestead, built in 1912. ==Demographics==