Wimbledon is a farming locality in the

Tararua District The Tararua District is a Districts of New Zealand, district near the south-east corner of New Zealand's North Island that is administered by the Tararua District Council. It has a population of and an area of 4,364.62 km². The district' ...

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. It is located on the former SH 52 between

Waipukurau Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the banks of the Tukituki River, 7 kilometres south of Waipawa and 50 kilometres southwest of Hastings, New ...

and

Masterton Masterton () is a large town in the Wellington Region, Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand that operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa ...

. It is from Weber, from

Herbertville Herbertville, earlier known as Wainui after the Wainui River, is a small settlement in New Zealand's North Island, on the eastern coast of the Tararua District. It lies just south of Cape Turnagain, a promontory named by Captain Cook who used t ...

on the coast, and inland from

Cape Turnagain Cape Turnagain is a prominent headland on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, part way between Hawke Bay and Cook Strait, between the mouths of the Pōrangahau and Ākitio Rivers. The cape was named by Captain James Cook Ca ...

. The Waikopiro Stream runs into the Wainui River at Wimbledon. Wimbledon has a war memorial, a few farms and a tavern A heritage listed building built in 1886. The area is well known for sheep farming and for exotic breeds of sheep. The locality was named after Wimbledon in England during the 1880s after a local resident shot a bullock while standing a considerable distance away. It was considered by onlookers to be a shot worthy of the rifle-shooting championships held in Wimbledon at the time.

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Populated places in Manawatū-Whanganui Tararua District {{ManawatuWanganui-geo-stub