# Amherst Head

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**Amherst Head** is a community in the Canadian province of [Nova Scotia](/source/Nova_Scotia), located in [Cumberland County](/source/Cumberland_County,_Nova_Scotia).[1]

According to the book *[Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia](/source/Place-Names_and_Places_of_Nova_Scotia)*, Amherst Head is "located on the road from Amherst to [Pugwash](/source/Pugwash,_Nova_Scotia), west of Pugwash. Among the grantees were Dixon and John Trenholm, 1818 and Jonathan Tindell and Barnet Webb, 1820. A way office was established in 1852 and a school built in 1873. The population in 1856 was 156."[2]

In 2005, Heritage Gas built a 17.6 km natural gas pipeline through Amherst Head to Amherst, NS. In 2004, Sunrise Swine Genetics built a [hog farm](/source/Intensive_pig_farming) in Amherst Head. The community is rural, with an abundance of natural wildlife.

## References

1. CAAOQ. Retrieved 24 February 2026.

1. Retrieved 24 February 2026.

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