Park
Western Springs Lakeside Park
99 Motions Road, Western Springs, Auckland 1022
Spring-fed lake and lawns anchored by a Victorian pump house now home to a transport museum.
This guide to Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland starts with Te Wai Orea, the spring-fed waters Maori gathered eels from for generations, before tracing how the young city dammed the springs in 1877 and built a pump house here to supply its growing water needs. Back when this small lake was essentially Auckland's entire water supply, a steam beam engine in that pump house hauled the water uphill to reservoirs across the city.
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