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Cornwall Park

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Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Cornwall Park
Phone:
+64 9-630 8485

Hours:
Sunday7am - 9pm
Monday7am - 9pm
Tuesday7am - 9pm
Wednesday7am - 9pm
Thursday7am - 9pm
Friday7am - 9pm
Saturday7am - 9pm


Cornwall Park is an expansive parkland in Epsom near the heart of Auckland, New Zealand, surrounding the park containing Maungakiekie pa or the hill of One Tree Hill. The two independent parks form one large park of 670 acres . A place of public resort for the recreation and enjoyment of the people of New Zealand said its donor. The Park has centuries-old heritage sites, wide-open spaces, tree lined avenues and walks, places of peace and tranquillity in a large city, sports grounds including tennis and bowls and a working farm for the education of city children. John Logan Campbell, Auckland resident since 1840 and, at the time of this gift, mayor, gave the park's 230 acres to a private trust on 10 June 1901. Maungakiekie had been purchased by the national government in 1845 and since 2012 belongs to Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective.Campbell chose to present the deeds the following day to the visiting heir to the throne, the duke of Cornwall and York later George V asking his consent for it to be named Cornwall Park in honour of the duke. A few weeks later the adjoining Alexandra Park was named in honour of the duke's mother.
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