Matcham is a semi-rural

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of the Central Coast region of

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, Australia. It is part of the

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and included in the electoral district of

Terrigal Terrigal is a coastal town in the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, located east of Gosford on the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the local government area. History Terrigal was first settled in 1826 by European Settler John Gray, ...

. It has a hall and a historic church, St. George's Church, established in 1925.

Origin of the name Matcham

The Matcham Estate was a grant of 2,560 acres to Charles Horatio Nelson Matcham, a nephew of Lord Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Charles Horatio Matcham came to Sydney in 1828. Charles Matcham of the

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was promised the land as a primary grant and authorised to take possession from 18 October 1831. The deed is registered in book 59/129 and is dated 1 January 1840. He remained at "Bogolong" Murrumbidgee, where he died on 11 March 1844. The estate passed to his nephew and then through various hands without development until 1907, when George Matcham sold to Frank L Measures of

Niagara Park Niagara Park is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia north of Gosford's central business district. It is part of the local government area. It consists of residential housing as well as acreage blocks and smal ...

. Between 1907 and 1910, Measures subdivided the estate into various portions, one of them eventually becoming the suburb of nearby Holgate. Extracted from the Matcham and Holgate Hall News
Matcham Hall
.

Notable residents

Notable residents include Peter Sterling.

References

Suburbs of the Central Coast (New South Wales) {{CentralCoastNSW-geo-stub