Newmarket
Historic shopping district born from a colonial cattle market, now lined with boutiques and rooftop bars.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Newmarket in Auckland starts before the boutiques, with a name older than the English one and a single tree that travellers once steered by on the track between two harbours. You'll hear how settlers and a livestock market renamed the spot, and about a year in 1908 when the landmark met the town's idea of safety. Best heard on foot, with the shopfronts in view.
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