Brynderwyn is a settlement in
Northland, New Zealand. It is located at the junction of
SH1 and
SH12 SH1 or SH-1 may refer to:
* State Highway 1; see List of highways numbered 1
* SH1 (classification), a Paralympic shooting classification
* PCL-09, exported as SH1, a Chinese truck-mounted howitzer artillery system
* Silent Hill, the first video g ...
between
Whangārei
Whangārei () is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the largest settlement of the Northland Region. It is part of the Whangarei District, created in 1989 from the former Whangarei City, Whangarei County and Hikurangi Town councils to admi ...
and
Wellsford
Wellsford () is a town on the Northland Peninsula in the northern North Island of New Zealand. It is the northernmost major settlement in the Auckland Region, and is northwest of the Auckland CBD. It is a major regional centre, being located at ...
, and a narrowing of the
North Auckland Peninsula
The Northland Peninsula, called the North Auckland Peninsula in earlier times, is in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand. It is joined to the rest of the island by the Auckland isthmus, a narrow piece of land between the Waitematā ...
between
Bream Bay and the upper branches of the
Kaipara Harbour
Kaipara Harbour is a large enclosed harbour estuary complex on the north western side of the North Island of New Zealand. The northern part of the harbour is administered by the Kaipara District and the southern part is administered by the Auck ...
. It is most notable as the scene of a
1963 bus crash which killed 15 people in the
Brynderwyn Range
The Brynderwyn Range or Brynderwyn Hills is a ridge extending east–west across the Northland Peninsula in northern New Zealand some 60 kilometres south of Whangārei, from the southern end of Bream Bay in the east to the Otamatea River (an a ...
.
The Welsh name for this locality may have been given by William Wright of Sydney, who received a Crown grant on 13 May 1858.
References
Populated places in the Northland Region
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