Highwic

Highwic is a 19th-century house in Auckland, New Zealand, which is listed by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure. The house was built in 1862 for Alfred Buckland, a wealthy colonial settler and landowner.
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  • Type: Historic building
  • Description: historic house in Auckland, New Zealand
  • Address: 40 Gillies Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, 1023

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Newmarket and Station Square.

Railway station
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
railway station is a station in the inner-city suburb of in , . It serves the South City and Onehunga West Lines of the Auckland railway network, and is the second-busiest station in Auckland, after . is situated 470 metres northeast of Highwic.

Square
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is situated 390 metres northeast of Highwic.

Museum
Photo: Auckland War Memorial Museum, CC BY 2.0.
The , also known as Auckland Museum, is one of 's most important museums and . Its neoclassical building constructed in the 1920s and 1950s, stands on Observatory Hill, the remains of a dormant volcano, in the , near . is situated 1¼ km north of Highwic.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newmarket and Grafton.

Suburb
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is a central suburb. was originally an independent borough from 1885 to 1989, when it was abolished. was established as a livestock market since the 1850s and grew to become a retail and commercial centre for Auckland, with the main road Broadway being the focal point of this activity.

Suburb
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is a suburb of , . The suburb is named for the Duke of , a patron of the first Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson, and the grandfather of a subsequent Governor, Robert FitzRoy.

Suburb
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is an inner city suburb of , located 2 km south of the , in the of New Zealand. is one of Auckland's oldest suburbs, and also one of the smallest.

Highwic

Latitude
-36.87183° or 36° 52′ 19″ south
Longitude
174.77492° or 174° 46′ 30″ east
Inception
1862
Levels
2
Open location code
4VMP4QHF+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 265013900
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Wiki­data ID
Q5760046
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