Battle Hill Farm Forest Park is a Wellington Regional

Wellington Region

The Wellington region of New Zealand occupies the southern end of the North Island.-Governance:The official Wellington Region, as administered by the Wellington Regional Council covers the conurbation around the capital city, Wellington, and the cities of Lower Hutt, Porirua, and Upper Hutt, each...

 park located near Paekakariki

Paekakariki

Paekakariki is a town in the Kapiti Coast District in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It is 22 km north of Porirua and 45 km north-east of Wellington, the nation's capital city....

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. It contains the site of the Battle of Battle Hill

Battle of Battle Hill

The Battle Hill engagement took place between 6–13 August 1846, during the New Zealand land wars and was one of the last engagements of the Hutt Valley Campaign....

 and is intersected by Transmission Gully

Transmission Gully

Transmission Gully is a chain of sleep-sided, isolated valleys in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. It runs approximately north-south between the Kapiti Coast and Tawa, through the hills behind the city of Porirua....

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The park contains a working farm near the entrance at Paekakariki Hill Road and extends over the surrounding hills and into a plantation forest. It contains several loop walkways, some suitable for mountain biking and horse riding.

External links

• Greater Wellington Regional Council