Norsewood

Norsewood is a small rural settlement in the Tararua District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. The town is situated east of the Ruahine Mountain range and is located 20 kilometres northeast of Dannevirke.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Makotuku and Ormondville.

Makotuku

Hamlet

Makotuku is a locality in the Manawatū-Whanganui Region of New Zealand's North Island, about 3 km2 west of Ormondville. The settlement formed around the temporary railway terminus and was often called Makotoko. Makotuku is situated 6 km south of Norsewood.

Ormondville

Village

Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.

Ormondville is a locality in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located inland, south of Waipukurau and west of Flemington, Hawke's Bay. Ormondville railway station opened in 1880, but services ended in 2001. Ormondville is situated 6 km southeast of Norsewood.

Matamau

Hamlet

Matamau is a small village, on a ridge between the Matamau and Whakaruatapu Streams, tributaries of the Manawatū River, in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. Matamau is situated 9 km southwest of Norsewood.

Norsewood

Type: Village with 135 residents
Description: human settlement in New Zealand
Category: locality
Location: Manawatū–Whanganui, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-40.07077° or 40° 4′ 15″ south

Longitude

176.21554° or 176° 12′ 56″ east

Population

135

Elevation

390 metres (1,280 feet)

Open location code

4VFRW6H8+M6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 615164470

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2186044

Wikidata ID

Q2526561

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In Other Languages

From Bavarian to Turkish—“Norsewood” goes by many names.

Bavarian: “Norsewood”
Dutch: “Norsewood”
French: “Norsewood”
German: “Norsewood”
Malay: “Norsewood”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Norsewood”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norsewood”
Norwegian: “Norsewood”
Polish: “Norsewood”
Swedish: “Norsewood”
Turkish: “Norsewood”

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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 “Norsewood”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.