The area known today as Murvale Reserve is a place with rich Maori and European history, dating back hundreds of years. Its historical associations are largely derived from its unique strategic location on a raised knoll which has expansive views out over the Hauraki Gulf and Waitemata Harbour.
Murvale Reserve is part of what was once a farm dating back to the earliest days of European settlement in Howick. In 1854, the property was given as a Crown Grant to Surgeon J.T.W. Bacot who had arrived with the Fencibles in 1848. The name “Murvale” was given by a later land owner – Canadian Army Captain Archie Trounsdale in 1932, who ran a stud farm and kept pedigree Friesian cattle.
Subdivision in the 1960s saw the transfer of the property to Council as a reserve. An infestation of Dutch Elm disease in 2002 resulted in significant loss in tree cover in the reserve, which is now been addressed with replanting of mainly native species in the gully and stream areas.
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