Greytown, population 1,998 (as at the 2001 Census), is a town in the Wairarapa, in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is 80 km north-west of Wellington and 25 kilometres southwest of Masterton, on State Highway 2. Its coordinates are .

History

Greytown was first settled on 27 March 1854, under the Small Farms Association Settlement Scheme , and named after Governor Sir George Grey, who arranged for the land to be bought from local Maori to establish the town. It became a Borough in 1878 and a ward of the South Wairarapa District Council in 1989.

The first Arbor Day celebration in New Zealand was held in Greytown in 1890, and it is proud of its history, claiming to have the most complete main street of Victorian architecture in the country, and of being New Zealand's first planned inland town.

Disambiguation

There is another Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

External links

• A portal site about Greytown, for tourists
• Another tourist information site