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Woburn, New Zealand

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Local authority
  
Lower Hutt City

South
  
Moera

East
  
Waiwhetū

Southwest
  
Ava, New Zealand

Train station
  
Woburn Railway Station

Date established
  
1840s

North
  
Lower Hutt

Population
  
1,737 (2006)

Northeast
  
Waterloo, New Zealand

Woburn is a suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington situated at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand.

Henry Petre farmed the area in the 1840s and named the area after the Duke of Bedford's estate, Woburn Abbey. Petre's farm was later taken over by Daniel and Harriet Riddiford, whose descendants built a large home there, with the land being gradually subdivided. Riddiford Street in Lower Hutt commemorates them.

References

Woburn, New Zealand Wikipedia