Football Grounds
Football Grounds is a pitch in Nelson City, Nelson. Football Grounds is situated nearby to Children’s Playground, as well as near the park Tokomaru Reserve.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saxton Oval and Garin College.
Saxton Oval
Pitch
Photo: Nelsonpubliclibraries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saxton Oval, also known as Saxton Field, is a cricket ground in Saxton, Stoke, Nelson Region, New Zealand. Saxton Oval was one of the venues for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. It hosted three matches during the tournament. Saxton Oval is situated 390 metres south of Football Grounds.
Garin College
School
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Garin College is a New Zealand Catholic, integrated, co-educational day and boarding secondary school in Nelson on the northern outskirts of Richmond. The college opened on 28 January 2002 to serve the Catholic community, particularly in the upper South Island. Garin College is situated 1 km southwest of Football Grounds.
Waimea College
School
Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Waimea College is a co-educational secondary school in Richmond, Tasman District, New Zealand. Opened in 1957, the college has over 1500 students, and is the largest school in the top of the South Island. Waimea College is situated 2 km southwest of Football Grounds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stoke and Monaco.
Stoke
Suburb
Stoke is a suburb of Nelson in New Zealand, located between Richmond and Tāhunanui. Stoke was named by William Songer, the personal servant of Arthur Wakefield, after his birthplace Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk.
Monaco
Quarter
Monaco is a small suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, west of town centre of Stoke. It lies on a narrow peninsula which extends into Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere immediately to the south of Nelson Airport, southwest of central Nelson.
Richmond
Town
Nelson is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island. It is in a region often known as Nelson Bays or the "Top of the South" and is actually slightly north of the capital city of Wellington in the North Island. Richmond is situated 2½ km southwest of Football Grounds.
Football Grounds
- Type: Pitch
- Categories: recreation area, football, and sports location
- Location: Nelson City, Nelson, Nelson Bays, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.32751° or 41° 19′ 39″ southLongitude
173.21396° or 173° 12′ 50″ eastOpen location code
4VCMM6C7+XHOpenStreetMap ID
way 214942936OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=pitchOpenStreetMap feature
sport=soccer
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