Residential suburban area of New Plymouth, 3km north-west of the city centre. Fitzroy was first settled as a village in the 1840s on the outskirts of the Plymouth Company's settlement at New Plymouth.
Residential suburban area of New Plymouth, 3km north-west of the city centre. Fitzroy was first settled as a village in the 1840s on the outskirts of the Plymouth Company's settlement at New Plymouth.
Named after Captain Robert Fitzroy, the third Governor of New Zealand (1843-45).
