people, Blenheim is built
around a modern, compact
shopping centre with a number
of specialist shops and a range
of restaurants.
home of sunshine, flowers
and wine. The city has an
abundance of delightful parks
and gardens, with flowerbeds
in full colour at any time of
the year. The foresight of
early residents has provided
several attractive parks and
walkways in the town. Pollard
Park covers an area around
the spring-fed Fulton Creek
trees are a duckpond, children's
playground, picnic and
barbecue area, a nine-hole golf
course, croquet green, tennis
courts and a fitness trail.
centre is built on reclaimed
land, once the site of a swamp.
It now features fountains,
gardens and an historic ship's
cannon, named Blenkinsopp's
gun. Originally a ship's cannon
from the Caroline, it was later
owned by John Blenkinsopp, a
trader who in 1831 fraudulently
exchanged land on the Wairau
Plains with Maori for guns.
Come and see for yourself...