Feilding
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Feilding Aorangi (Māori) |
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Manchester Square
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| Nickname(s): 'Friendly' Feilding | |
 Feilding
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| Coordinates: 40°13′S 175°34′E / 40.217°S 175.567°ECoordinates: 40°13′S 175°34′E / 40.217°S 175.567°E | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Manawatu-Wanganui Region |
| Territorial authority | Manawatu District |
| Ward | Feilding |
| Named for | Colonel William Henry Adelbert Feilding |
| Electorate | Rangitikei |
| Government | |
| • MP | Ian McKelvie (New Zealand National Party) |
| • Mayor | Margaret Kouvelis |
| Elevation | 70 m (230 ft) |
| Population (June 2016) | |
| • Total | 16,250 |
| Time zone | NZST (UTC+12) |
| • Summer (DST) | NZDT (UTC+13) |
| Postcode | 4702 |
| Telephone | 06 |
| Website | www.feilding.co.nz |
Feilding (Māori: Aorangi) is a town in the Manawatu District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatu District Council.
Feilding has won the annual New Zealand's Most Beautiful Town award 14 times. It is a beautiful Edwardian themed town with red-bricked pavements, stunning flowerbeds, and friendly service. The town is currently extending its CBD beautification featuring paving and planter boxes on the footpaths on the main streets in the CBD, including the realignment and beautification of Fergusson Street to the South Street entrance of Manfeild Park.
The town is a service town for the surrounding farming district. The Feilding Saleyards have been a vital part of the wider Manawatu community for over 125 years. As transport systems improved and farming practices changed, the need for small, local saleyards all but disappeared, leaving few major selling complexes in New Zealand. Manawatu is a diverse and fertile farming area with high production, high stock-carrying capacity and a stable climate. These factors make Feilding Saleyards a popular medium for many farmers. A unique aspect of Feilding Saleyards is their location in the centre of town.
The Manawatu Plains, on which the town is sited, are very fertile land, and as such it is a prosperous agricultural area. Being located on the floodplain of a major river has its problems, however, and in February 2004 the town suffered extensive flooding. In 2009 the Horizons Regional Council commissioned a new flood protection scheme to prevent extensive flooding in the future.
The town was named after Colonel William H.A. Feilding, a director of the Emigrants and Colonists Aid Corporation Ltd. who negotiated the purchase of a 100,000 acre (400 km²) block of land from the Wellington provincial government in 1871. The first settlers arrived from Great Britain on 22 January 1874.
The Feilding Edwardian Project Inc. was established in September 1993 by local businesses with the aim of revitalising the central business area of Feilding. Many of the commercial buildings were built in the 1900s (Edwardian era) and have been restored and preserved over time.
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