Birchville
Birchville is a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand in the North Island. Its centre lies at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley, in the north of the city, near confluence of the Akatarawa River with the Hutt River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 3,840 residents
- Description: suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Akatarawa” and “Parkdale”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maymorn railway station and Mangaroa railway station.
Maymorn railway station
Railway station
Photo: Matthew25187, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maymorn railway station is a twin platform, rural request stop railway station serving the small settlement of Maymorn on the Maymorn Plateau, east of Upper Hutt, in New Zealand’s North Island. Maymorn railway station is situated 3½ km southeast of Birchville.
Mangaroa railway station
Ruins
Photo: Matthew25187, CC BY 2.5.
Mangaroa railway station was a single-platform rural railway station on the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island, on the section that was replaced by the Rimutaka Tunnel deviation in 1955. Mangaroa railway station is situated 3½ km south of Birchville.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Emerald Hill and Brown Owl.
Emerald Hill
Quarter
Emerald Hill is a hill in the suburb of Birchville, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The name Emerald Hill has been applied by developers Golden Homes Wellington Ltd to a housing development they are constructing on the north-eastern slopes of Emerald Hill.
Brown Owl
Suburb
Brown Owl is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located 3–4km from the city centre. It developed slowly from the 1960s. The suburb is located on the eastern side of the Hutt River at the base of the Eastern Hutt Valley Hills and Emerald Hill, with SH2 running right through it.
Timberlea
Quarter
Timberlea is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located 3.5-6.5 km northeast from the city centre. It had a population of 1612 at the 2013 Census. The suburb is located on a plateau of the Eastern Hutt Valley Hills, with most of the suburb being 115-135 metres above sea level.
Birchville
- Category: locality
- Location: Upper Hutt City, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.0911° or 41° 5′ 28″ southLongitude
175.09775° or 175° 5′ 52″ eastPopulation
3,840Elevation
245 metres (804 feet)Open location code
4VCQW35X+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2285325284OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6224738Wikidata ID
Q4915773
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In Other Languages
“Birchville” goes by many names.
- Turkish: “Birchville”
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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 “Birchville”. Photo: Deanpemberton, CC BY-SA 2.5.