Francis Bell Reserve
Francis Bell Reserve is a nature reserve in Lower Hutt City, Greater Wellington. Francis Bell Reserve is situated nearby to the quarter Lowry Bay, as well as near the locality Sorrento Bay.Places of Interest
Highlights include Williams Park and Wainuiomata High School.
Wainuiomata High School
School
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Wainuiomata High School, a state co-educational secondary school, operates in Wainuiomata, a suburb of Lower Hutt in New Zealand. The school was founded in January 2002 from the merger of Wainuiomata College and Parkway College.
Woburn railway station
Railway station
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Woburn railway station is a suburban railway station serving Woburn and Waiwhetu in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The station is located on the Hutt Valley section of the Wairarapa Line, 14.4 km north of Wellington, and is the junction for the Gracefield Branch to the Hutt Railway Workshops, which diverges eastward from the mainline to the south of the station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Hutt and Wainuiomata.
Lower Hutt
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Lower Hutt is a city of 112,000 people in the lower Hutt Valley, near Wellington, in the Greater Wellington region of the North Island of New Zealand. The city includes Lower Hutt and the separate communities of Petone, Eastbourne and Wainuiomata.
Wainuiomata
Suburb
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Wainuiomata is a large dormitory suburb of Lower Hutt, in the Wellington metropolitan area in New Zealand. Its population was estimated as being 20,450 as of June 2025, with a density of 1,600 people per km2.
Petone
Suburb
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Petone is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. It stands at the southern end of the Hutt Valley, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour.
Francis Bell Reserve
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Lower Hutt City, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.2533° or 41° 15′ 12″ southLongitude
174.9186° or 174° 55′ 7″ eastOpen location code
4VCPPWW9+MCOpenStreetMap ID
way 176298020OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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Satellite Map
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Localities in the Area
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