Winchester
Winchester is a small town in the South-Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Winchester is 6.9 kilometres north of Temuka and 51 kilometres southwest of Ashburton. State Highway 1 and the Main South Line railway pass through Winchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 264 residents
- Description: locality in Timaru District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Winchester, New Zealand”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orari and Temuka.
Orari
Village
Orari is a small town in the South Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island, roughly midway between Ashburton to the north, and Timaru to the south. Orari is situated 6 km north of Winchester.
Temuka
Town
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Temuka is a town on New Zealand's Canterbury Plains, 15 kilometres north of Timaru and 142 km south of Christchurch. It is located at the centre of a rich sheep and dairy farming region, for which it is a service town. Temuka is situated 7 km south of Winchester.
Waitohi
Locality
Waitohi, Waitohi Flat and Upper Waitohi are small farming centres from 5 to 16 km west of Temuka and north of the Opihi river, South Canterbury in New Zealand. Waitohi is situated 8 km southwest of Winchester.
Winchester
- Category: locality
- Location: Timaru District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-44.18493° or 44° 11′ 6″ southLongitude
171.27837° or 171° 16′ 42″ eastPopulation
264Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)Open location code
4V7HR78H+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 294997276OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2179037Wikidata ID
Q8023767
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Winchester” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Winchester, New Zealand”
- French: “Winchester (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Winchester”
- Malay: “Winchester, New Zealand”
- Polish: “Winchester (Nowa Zelandia)”
- Polish: “Winchester”
- Turkish: “Winchester”
- Urdu: “ونچیسٹر، نیوزی لینڈ”
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