Woodend
Woodend is a town in the Waimakariri District, in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It may have been named because it was on the edge of what was then called the Maori Bush, or after an early settler, Thomas Wooding.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gavin Treadgold, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,190 residents
- Description: town in Canterbury, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Woodend, New Zealand”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tuahiwi and Pegasus.
Tuahiwi
Hamlet
Tuahiwi is a small New Zealand settlement located between Woodend and Rangiora. It is 6 kilometres north of Kaiapoi.
Pegasus
Town
Pegasus is a new town in the Waimakariri District of Canterbury, New Zealand. Named for the nearby Pegasus Bay, it is adjacent to the town of Woodend and is 25 km north of Christchurch. Pegasus is situated 2½ km east of Woodend.
Waikuku
Village
Waikuku is a small town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, which sits 28 km north of central Christchurch. Waikuku lies 11.8 km south of Leithfield on state highway 1 and 3 km north of Woodend. Waikuku is situated 3½ km northeast of Woodend.
Woodend
- Category: locality
- Location: Waimakariri District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.32048° or 43° 19′ 14″ southLongitude
172.66557° or 172° 39′ 56″ eastPopulation
3,190Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
4V8JMMH8+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 184426653OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2178982Wikidata ID
Q8032610
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Woodend” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Woodend”
- Cebuano: “Woodend”
- Dutch: “Woodend, New Zealand”
- French: “Woodend”
- Malay: “Woodend, New Zealand”
- Polish: “Woodend”
- Turkish: “Woodend”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Woodend”. Photo: Gavin Treadgold, CC BY-SA 2.0.