Churchill Park

Churchill Park is a 40-hectare park in the Auckland suburb of Glendowie, in New Zealand. It was named after Winston Churchill upon the park's creation in 1945, and lies on the eastern side of the Auckland isthmus towards the Tāmaki River. Glendowie suburb was established in the 1920s when George Riddell created a loop road in the area.

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Type: Park
Description: park in Glendowie, suburb of Auckland, New Zealand
Also known as: “Churchill Park, New Zealand”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Churchill Park School and Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic Church.

Churchill Park School

School

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Churchill Park School is a co-ed primary and intermediate school in Glendowie, Auckland, New Zealand. It teaches from year one until year eight. It is surrounded by Churchill Park.

Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic Church

Church

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Taurere/Taylor Hill

Volcano

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Taurere / Taylor Hill is a volcano in the Auckland volcanic field. It erupted about 33,000 years ago. Its scoria cone reaches 57 m high. It was the site of a Māori pā, and retains earthworks from that era such as kūmara pits and terracing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glendowie and St Heliers.

Glendowie

Suburb

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Glendowie is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is under the local governance of Auckland Council. It was under Auckland City Council from 1989 until the merger of all of Auckland's councils into the "super city" in 2010.

St Heliers

Suburb

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St Heliers is a seaside suburb of Auckland with a population of 11,760 as of June 2025. St Heliers is located at the eastern end of Tamaki Drive, and used to be the place where the Tamaki estuary formally divided Auckland from Manukau City, until the entire Auckland region was amalgamated under a single city authority, the Auckland Council, in 2010.