Horowhenua Maps

Levin Township Plan 1888:

Block I Waiopehu Survey District - Formerly Horowhenua No. 2 block. Surveyed by A.E. Ashcroft and T.L. Humphries - December 1888.

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Horowhenua Portion of 1881 Map of Manawatu County (prior to 1883-5 split) sourced from Archives Central online.

Shows original blocks:

• Muhunoa No. 1 and 3
• Ohau No. 1, 3, and 4.

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Map of Horowhenua circa 1887 sourced from Archives Central online.

Shows original subdivision of rural Ohau and Muhunoa East.

Map of Horowhenua Block updated:

Township of Levin is shown along with adjoining blocks.

1910

Map by Leslie Adkin published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: The Post-tertiary Geological History of the Ohau River and of the Adjacent Coastal Plain, Horowhenua County, North Island

1930

Archives Central have digitised this 1930 map of the Horowhenua - produced for the Manawatu Catchment Board and the Regional Water Board.

It shows the subdivision of rural blocks.

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The Ohau River and Waikawa Stream once joined to form a single river mouth.

Leslie Adkin drew this map in 1935.

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Horowhenua County Map 1903

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Mt Hector Track 1924

- runs from Greytown to Otaki over the Tararua Range

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Girdlestone's Track over the Tararuas 1924

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1958 sketch map of part of the Tararua ranges by Adkin, G.L. and Francis,H.R.

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Borough of Foxton 1935

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1964 Map of Foxton by D.H. Stonehouse

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Borough of Levin 1927

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Borough of Levin 1950

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Map of Levin 1963

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Map of Horowhenua 1966

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Plan of The Celebrated Makerua Agricultural and Flax Lands 1903

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Borough of Shannon 1935

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Map of Shannon 1963

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1983 Map of Levin

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Map I

Place names on this map:

Otaki River mouth area.

Map from Wai-tohu Stream in the south to Kopu-reherehe Lake in the north.

Names on this map include:

Map IV:

This maps goes from Puke-hinau Hill in the south to Manga-nanao Stream in the north.

The names on it include:

Map V

From Manakau in the south to Ohau in the north.

Names on this map include:

Map VI:

Includes Lake Papaitonga, Ohau village, the Ohau River and Kuku Stream.

Places on this map include:

Map VII

Covers . . . Place names include:

Map VIII:

Covers area north of Waitarere Beach. Names shown include:

Map XI

Map of area including Makurerua Swamp and Opiki Road.

Names on this map include:

Map XII

Covers area between Tokomaru and Shannon and to the north.

Names shown include:

1939

Levin subdivision plan corner of Horowhenua and Tiro Tiro Roads

This sudbivision plan shows section 25 of Horowhenua Block No. 2 Blk, Blk. I Waiopehu S.D. 1939

Streets shown:

• Horowhenua Road
• Tiro Tiro Road
• Queen Street

People mentioned:

• C. Findlay
• J. Whiting
• Clara Hossack

This sudbivision plan shows section 30 of Horowhenua Block No. 2 Blk, Blk. I Waiopehu S.D. 1940

Streets shown:

• Horowhenua Road

People/businesses mentioned:

• H. Shanks
• Levin Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd.

This sudbivision plan shows section 30 of Horowhenua Block No. 2 Blk, Blk. I Waiopehu S.D. 1946

Streets shown:

• Queen Street
• Bartholomew Road

People mentioned:

• Mrs Annie Green
• E. Collie

Levin subdivision plan corner of Horowhenua and Tiro Tiro Roads1939

1908:

This plan, taken from one prepared in 1908, shows the general arrangement of the

reclamation and the new station yard completed at Foxton in 1881.

An indication of the location of the original tramway is superimposed.

This pictured appeared on page 75 of Tony Hunt’s book:

Foxton 1888 – 1988: the first 100 years