Bar Beach, New South Wales
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Bar Beach is an inner city
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of
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, located southwest of Newcastle's
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. The suburb is named for the beach that extends along its eastern border. The beach is home to the Cooks Hill Surf Life Saving Club.


History

The
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held extensive Crown land grants in the Newcastle area that have since been developed into the modern day suburbs of Bar Beach,
Cooks Hill Cooks Hill is an inner city suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is typified by its tree lined streets, rows of Victorian terrace housing, turn of the century timber cottages and corner pubs. Cooks Hill ...
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and
Broadmeadow Broadmeadow is the geographic center of Newcastle city. Its main commercial hub is located at the "Nineways".

Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 1,256 people in Bar Beach. 77.3% of people were born in Australia and 86.8% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 33.7%, Catholic 23.2% and Anglican 15.5%.


Shipwrecks

The northern part of the beach is commonly known as Susan Gilmore Beach, named after the American clipper ''Susan Gilmore'' that was wrecked there in the early hours of 4 July 1884. Nearby the ''City of Newcastle'' (on 12 September 1878) and (on 27 July 1945) were also wrecked.


Heritage

The suburb has a number of local landmarks which have been heritage listed including the Cooks Hill Surf Life Saving Club and Memorial, Reid Park Tennis Clubhouse and Tennis Courts and the Empire Park Bowling Club Fence. A number of residential units in the Art Deco style have also attracted heritage listing.Newcastle Local Environmental Plan 2003 (New South Wales), sch 6 Heritage items and heritage conservation areas, Part 1 Heritage items.


Gallery

File:Bar Beach viewing South.jpg, Bar beach viewing south File:Bar Beach facilities.jpg, Bar Beach picnic facilities File:Susan Gilmore Beach from Bar Beach.jpg, Viewing toward Susan Gilmore Beach from Bar Beach


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{{City of Newcastle suburbs
Suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales Beaches of New South Wales