Glendowie Park

Glendowie Park is a park in Auckland, Auckland Region. Glendowie Park is situated near Glendowie Presbyterian Church, as well as near Glendowie School.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Taurere/Taylor Hill and Churchill Park.

Taurere/Taylor Hill

Volcano

Photo: Bryndlefly, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Churchill Park

Park

Photo: Clivostros, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Sacred Heart College

School

Sacred Heart College is a state-integrated secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. It is a Catholic, Marist College set on 22 hectares of land in Glen Innes. Sacred Heart College is situated 760 metres southwest of Glendowie Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glendowie and Wai o Taiki Bay.

Glendowie

Suburb

Photo: Clivostros, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Wai o Taiki Bay

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Wai o Taiki Bay is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is under the local governance of Auckland Council.

St Heliers

Suburb

Photo: Carpenter0, Public domain.

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.

Glendowie Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-36.86109° or 36° 51′ 40″ south

Longitude

174.87606° or 174° 52′ 34″ east

Open location code

4VMP4VQG+HC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 27444501

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Glendowie Presbyterian Church and Glendowie School.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Glendowie Park and 134 Riddell Road.

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