Farley is a former rural village in the
City of Maitland
The City of Maitland is a local government area in the lower Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is situated adjacent to the New England Highway and the Hunter railway line.
The Mayor of the City of Maitland is Cr. David T ...
in the
Hunter Region
The Hunter Region, also commonly known as the Hunter Valley, is a region of New South Wales, Australia, extending from approximately to north of Sydney. It contains the Hunter River and its tributaries with highland areas to the north and so ...
of
New South Wales
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Australia
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. Early settler Captain Emanuel Hungerford arrived in New South Wales in 1828 before purchasing an established property named Lochdon. Here he built a homestead he called Farley House, from which Farley takes its name, after his ancestral home of
Farleigh Hungerford
Farleigh Hungerford () is a village within the civil parish of Norton St Philip in the Mendip District, Mendip district, in Somerset, England, 9 miles southeast of Bath, Somerset, Bath, 3½ miles west of Trowbridge on A366 road, A366, between Trow ...
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Somerset
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. Farley is currently being redeveloped into a residential suburb of Maitland, with many new estates planned and land available from 400sqm. Farley is among the emerging western suburbs of Maitland including nearby Rutherford and Gillieston Heights across the wetlands. The Farley Wastewater Treatment Works is located in a rural area south of the village. Farley is bordered to the north by the
Main North railway line. The
Farley railway station served the area from 1860 until 1975.
Farley station
NSWrail.net, accessed 26 April 2014.
References
Suburbs of Maitland, New South Wales
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