A tiny town it may be, but Corfield has a big heart. Stay a while. Enjoy the hospitable welcome at The Corfield Pub, play a game of tennis, or get a cricket match going on the local cricket pitch. There’s plenty of room for camping! Once a year a Race Meeting is held which attracts people from far and wide. The prize money totals AUD50,000! A former Cobb and Co Coach staging point, the town is a social centre for local graziers and their families. Located 83 kilometres north west of Winton, on Winton-Hughenden Road.
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Arthur’s Pass village is 4km from the pass of the same name and is NZ’s highest-altitude settlement. The 924m pass was used by Maoris to reach Westland, but its European discovery was made by Arthur Dobson in 1864, when the Westland gold rush created the need for a crossing over the Southern Alps from Christchurch. A coach road was completed within a year, but later on the coal and timber trade demanded a railway, duly completed in 1923.