Alison's Paddock

The area on either side of Alison Avenue was once a four-acre section below Ewen William Alison’s Lochaber House. The paddock, next to the reef and ferry wharf, housed a dairy cow and was used to tether racehorses that were exercised along Takapuna Beach. Increasingly being used as a picnic area, the area became popularly known as Alison’s Paddock. Alison was twice mayor of Devonport and the first mayor of Takapuna. He was also chairman of the board of directors for the Devonport Steam Ferry Company. He transferred this land to the company in 1912 and it later built fourteen cabins to establish the Takapuna Beach Holiday Park.

Continue walking to the end of the road and then turn left up Earnoch Avenue.