Wellington Scoop
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Newtown’s streets of history
- Wellington Scoop
- As one of Wellington’s oldest suburbs, Newtown was initially undulating fields sloping to swampy ground ending up at the Basin Reserve. The Wellesley Block was advertised to settlers interested in a house with land. Mostly they’d come from dense tenements in the UK or slums in Te Aro.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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- Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand - Newtown tag geocode
