Very friendly and helpful people in the First Church Heritage Centre .. Explained how Dunedin was established because of the disruption in Scotland . In the 18 hundreds the Presbreterian spilt because of a political divide . Some members decided to set sail and set up the Free church across the other side of the world .. After a long and arduous sea journey the arrived in Dunedin ..First Church is the icon of the new settlement .. Dunedin's links to Ednburgh can be seen in the street names . Many of which are the same as this in Edinburgh Scotland .