Woodville (New Zealand)
| Woodville | ||
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 20 ′ S , 175 ° 52 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-MWT | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Manawatu-Wanganui | |
| District | Tararua District | |
| Ward | South Tararua Ward | |
| Residents | 1 401 (2013) | |
| height | 84 m | |
| Post Code | 4920 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 6 | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 Main street of Woodville in the 1890s |
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Woodville is a place in the Tararua District of the Manawatu-Wanganui region on the North Island of New Zealand .
geography
The place is located about 20 km east of Palmerston North , 24 km southwest of Dannevirke and 70 km north-northeast of Masterton . To the west of the city is the Manawatu Gorge , which separates the Tararua Range from the Ruahine Range . The Manawatu River runs on the southern edge of the place.
The city of Woodville is accessible via the New Zealand State Highway 2, which runs north-south, and the New Zealand State Highway 3, which runs west to Palmerston North . The Palmerston North - Gisborne railway line has a stop in the city and is connected to the Wairarapa Line via a turning loop , which runs through the Wairarapa Region to Wellington .
history
Originally, the settlement was planned by the then Hawkes Bay Provincial Council (Provincial Council) in 1871 as Village in the woods next to Dannevirke and Norsewood as the third settlement for Scandinavian immigrants. The plan failed. In 1874 the settlement's land was put up for sale under the name Woodville . The first to buy lots in the settlement were workers who moved the Hawkes Bay Railway farther west. Later, from 1880, more and more farmers followed and in 1885 the city's first council was formed. In 1887 it was recognized as a borough .
Two other names are known for Woodville from the early settlement period, Gorge Bridge Village and The Junction . The former probably because of its proximity to Manawatu Gorge , the latter because the settlement was the junction for road and rail connections between the Hawke's Bay region in the east and the Manawatu District in the west, as well as the Wairarapa region in the south.
Woodville was the birthplace of the Mountain Rock Music Festival , which became the largest festival of New Zealand music in the 1990s.
economy
The Woodville region lives from the production of agricultural products and the dairy industry. There is not much to see of the once huge forest areas that surrounded the place.
Personalities
The New Zealand painter Gottfried Lindauer , born in Pilsen in 1839, lived and died in Woodville. He was buried in the Gorge cemetery.
literature
- Helga Neubauer: Woodville . In: The New Zealand Book . 1st edition. NZ Visitor Publications , Nelson 2003, ISBN 1-877339-00-8 , pp. 535-536 .
Web links
- Wooldville . Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, July 13, 2012,accessed January 7, 2015.
- This is WOODVILLE's history . Woodville Districts' Vision Inc,accessed January 7, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 Census QuickStats about a place: Woodville . Statistics New Zealand , accessed January 7, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ This is WOODVILLE's history . Woodville Districts' Vision Inc , accessed January 7, 2015 .
- ^ New Zealand Placenames - superseded, changes and also knwon as . ancestry.com , accessed January 8, 2015 .
- ^ A b Neubauer: Woodville . In: The New Zealand Book . 2003, p. 536 .
- ^ Mountain Rock music festival . New Zealand History , accessed January 8, 2015 .