Brown Owl
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 3,760 residents
- Description: suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Brown Owl, New Zealand”
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 3 km east of Brown Owl.
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.
Expressions Whirinaki Arts and Entertainment Centre
Arts center
Expressions Whirinaki Arts and Entertainment Centre is an arts center, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Brown Owl.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Timberlea and Maoribank.
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.
Maoribank
Suburb
Maoribank is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located 2–3 km east-northeast of the city centre. It was predominantly developed between 1950-1970 and had a population of just less than 1000 at the 2013 Census.
Tōtara Park
Suburb
Photo: Lcmortensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tōtara Park is a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand, located 2 km northeast of the city centre. It is accessed via the Tōtara Park Bridge which crosses the Hutt River, connecting it to State Highway 2 and the main Upper Hutt urban area.
Brown Owl
- Category: locality
- Location: Upper Hutt City, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.10405° or 41° 6′ 15″ southLongitude
175.09752° or 175° 5′ 51″ eastPopulation
3,760Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)Named after
Frank Johnston’s Model T Ford which had a miniature brown owl dangling in the back windowOpen location code
4VCQV3WX+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 4259904505OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Brown Owl” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Brown Owl, New Zealand”
- French: “Brown Owl”
- Turkish: “Brown Owl”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rimutaka Baptist Church and Brown Owl Shops.
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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 “Brown Owl”. Photo: Deanpemberton, CC BY-SA 2.5.