Marton.co.nz
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Marton on the Web
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Marton (pop.5000 plus) is situated on the fertile Rangitikei plains halfway between Wanganui and Palmerston North. This proximity makes Marton an ideal place to enjoy the tranquility of a small rural town life style but enjoy work, play or education in the cities only a half-hour away. Feilding and RNZAF Base Ohakea are only 20 minutes away. Wellington, Lake Taupo, the ski fields, Hawkes Bay and Taranaki are all within a 2 ½ hour drive.
The town of Marton, biggest in the Rangitikei district, began life as a private township in 1866, when shop and housing sections were sold at auction by local land owners.
For three years the small village was known as Tutaenui, named after the stream running through its centre. In 1869 local citizens changed the name to Marton. to honour the home village of Captain James Cook in Yorkshire, marking his landing in New Zealand exactly 100 years earlier.
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