The Hill is an inner city, residential suburb of

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, in the

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, located immediately south of Newcastle's

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. The Hill is filled with historic Victorian terraces and is the site of a historic convict prison block. As of January 2021, the average house price in The Hill was A$1.92m.

History

The Aboriginal people, in this area, the

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, were the previous people of this land. The Hill was first known as Church Hill then Prospect Hill. It was one of the earliest settled areas of Newcastle and the site of the first town plan laid out by

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in 1823. The first railway was located there, starting at AA Coy's A Pit just off Church Street

The Boltons

The site was originally used as a mine with two engines creating coal fired stream. A series of four homes in

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style. They are

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houses designed by Frederick B Menkins and built by G.W Brewer in 1904. Each house has 4 bedrooms and bathroom is the last selling for $1,725,00.

Heritage listings

The Hill has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 51 Brown Street: Newcastle Reservoirs * 51 Church Street: Woodlands * 52a Church Street: Christ Church Cathedral * 52a Church Street: Horbury Hunt Hall

Gallery

File:House1 The Hill.jpg, Residence building, which is part of St Mary's Star of the Sea Church File:Jesmond House.jpg, Jesmond House is an Italianate mansion of the 1880s with significant historic associations with Newcastle. File:NewcastleEast2000s.jpg, Looking east from Jesmond House with Nobbys Head and

Stockton Beach Stockton Beach is located north of the Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia. It is long and stretches from Stockton, to Anna Bay. Over many years Stockton Beach has been the site of numerous shipwrecks and aircraft crash sites. In Wor ...

in the background. File:Christchurch Cathedral Newcastle.JPG, Christchurch Cathedral File:Tyrrell Street house.jpg, Tyrrell Street house, Newcastle, NSW, 21 September 1887

Notes

# Area calculation is based on 1:100000 map 9232 NEWCASTLE.

References

* Suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales {{NewcastleNSW-geo-stub