Cooks Gardens
Cooks Gardens is a stadium in Whanganui District, New Zealand that opened in 1896. Its recorded capacity is 21,000.
Key facts
Cooks Gardens is a stadium in Whanganui District, New Zealand that opened in 1896. Its recorded capacity is 21,000. No current owner is recorded. It is operated by Cooks Gardens Trust Board. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Wanganui Rugby Football Union, Athletics Wanganui, Cycling Wanganui, Wanganui Rugby Football Union.
- Location
- Whanganui District, New Zealand
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 21,000
- Opened
- 1896
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Not recorded
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Artificial turf, Natural grass
Cooks Gardens is at latitude -39.9341, longitude 175.0493, in Whanganui District, New Zealand. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | -39.9341 |
| Longitude | 175.0493 |
| City | Whanganui District |
| Region | Whanganui District |
| Country | New Zealand |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Artificial turf | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
| Surface | Natural grass | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
| Role | Organization | Period | Status | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Cooks Gardens Trust Board | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wanganui Rugby Football Union | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Athletics Wanganui, Cycling Wanganui | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Wanganui Rugby Football Union | Not mapped | 1896 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
8 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 1770 | 2026-10 |
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 1769 | 2026-10 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372077679 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Cooks_Gardens | Cooks Gardens | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20280 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20279 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20278 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 9393 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: