Lorneville is a small settlement on the northern outskirts of
Invercargill
Invercargill ( , mi, Waihōpai is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. The city lies in the heart of the wide expanse of t ...
, in
Southland, New Zealand
Southland ( mi, Murihiku) is New Zealand's southernmost region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura. It includes Southland District, Gore District and the city of Invercargill. The r ...
. It is located on , at the junction with State Highways
98 and
99, and is thus also on the
Southern Scenic Route
The Southern Scenic Route is a tourist highway in New Zealand linking Queenstown, Fiordland, Te Anau and the iconic Milford Road to Dunedin via, Riverton, Invercargill and The Catlins. An Australian travel magazine labelled it "one of the ...
.
Originally called Wallacetown Junction after the small settlement of
Wallacetown
Wallacetown is a small town in Southland, in the South Island of New Zealand. Wallacetown is to the west of Invercargill, on high ground between the Makarewa and Ōreti rivers, near the Ōreti's estuary. Both rivers are popular for trout and w ...
, which lies immediately to the west, the main industries in the area have a long association with livestock farming, and both Lorneville and nearby
Makarewa
Makarewa is a small community north of Invercargill (the southernmost city in the South Island within Southland of New Zealand).
History
Makarewa was formerly the junction of two branch line railways, where the Tuatapere Branch diverged from t ...
are best known to most New Zealanders as the sites of
freezing works
A slaughterhouse, also called abattoir (), is a facility where animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a packaging facility.
Slaughterhouses that produce meat that is no ...
owned by the
Alliance Group
Alliance Group Limited, a cooperative originally named Alliance Freezing Company (Southland) Limited, operates freezing works at eight sites in New Zealand and exports grass-fed meat and by-products to Europe, North America, as well as Asia in ...
.
Populated places in Southland, New Zealand
Invercargill
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