Wakefield (New Zealand)

By car

• Caltex petrol station

By bus

• Intercity Coaches operate coaches from Nelson to Greymouth, which stop (at/opposite the Caltex) in Wakefield once per day in each direction.

• St John's Church

  address: 120 Edward Street
  The church was built in 1846 and is the second oldest surviving church in New Zealand.

• Lord Rutherford MemorialMemorial to the nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937), who was born in Brightwater.

• Armageddon Paintball

  phone: +64 3-541 8452
  address: 334 Wai-Iti Valley Rd

• The Giggling Pony Equestrian Centre

  phone: +64 3-541 9145
  address: 434 Wai-Iti Valley Rd

• Redstone Golf Park

  phone: +64 3 5418 452
  address: Wai-iti Valley Rd

• Walk or Cycle the Great Taste TrailA 19 km walking or mountain biking trail from Richmond to Wakefield via Brightwater.

• Four Squaresupermarket.

• Brightwater Motor Inn