Shorewell Park is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of
Burnie
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s.
, Burnie had an urban popul ...
in the
North-west and west LGA region of
Tasmania
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. The locality is about south-west of the town of
Burnie
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s.
, Burnie had an urban popul ...
. The
2016 census
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*16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17
*one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016
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* ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film
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recorded a population of 2008 for the state suburb of Shorewell Park.
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It is a south western suburb of ]Burnie
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s.
, Burnie had an urban popul ...
, Tasmania, which was established in the 1970s as a broadacre social housing area. The residential housing expanded in the 1980s and in 2012 the Tasmanian Government released a plan for the next 20 years.
The Hilltop Plaza Shopping Centre provides essential services such as a supermarket, bottle shop, hairdressing salon and pharmacy.
The Burnie Community House provides locals with assistance, training and opportunities. It has a market garden as one of its projects.
History
Shorewell Park was gazetted as a locality in 1976. It had previously been named Cangort Park in 1974.
Geography
Cooee Creek forms the western boundary, and Shorewell Creek most of the eastern.
Road infrastructure
Route C110 (Mooreville Road) runs through from north to south.
Education
*Hellyer College
Hellyer College (often stylised as hellyer college) is a government comprehensive senior secondary school located in in north-western Tasmania, Australia. Established in 1976, the college caters for approximately 800 students in Years 11 and ...
*TAFE Tasmania TasTAFE is a Tasmanian tertiary education body of the Australian state-based Technical and Further Education system run by the Tasmanian State Government. The main campuses are located at Hobart, Warrane, Claremont, Glenorchy, Launceston, Alanv ...
References
External links
Hellyer College
TAFE Tasmania
Burnie Community House
Suburbs of Burnie, Tasmania
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