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Hobartville, New South Wales
Hobartville is a suburb of Richmond, in the state of New South Wales, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... Hobartville was originally a horse stud and was subdivided in the 1960s with the first houses built in 1969. Hobartville Public School was opened in 1971 and the Hobartville Shopping Centre was opened in 1978. Population At the , there were 2,712 residents in Hobartville. 81.6% of people were born in Australia and the most common ancestries were English, Australian, and Irish. The top responses for religious affiliation were No Religion 37.6%, Catholic 19.0% and Anglican 18.4%. Almost all dwellings were detached houses and most of these had 3 or more bedrooms. The median monthly mortgage payment was $2,141 which was higher than the national figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Hawkesbury
The City of Hawkesbury is a Local government in Australia, local government area that is located on the far northwest fringe of the Sydney, Greater Sydney area in New South Wales, Australia. The local government area is located in the Hawkesbury River, Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains regions. Hawkesbury City is named after the Hawkesbury River. Major suburbs in the City of Hawkesbury are Windsor, New South Wales, Windsor, Richmond, New South Wales, Richmond and Pitt Town, New South Wales, Pitt Town. It is a member council of the Hawkesbury River County Council. The mayor of the City of Hawkesbury is Councillor, Cr. Les Sheather, an Independent politician, independent associated with the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party. Suburbs and localities in the local government area Suburbs and localities in the City of Hawkesbury are: History The original inhabitants of the Hawkesbury district were the Darug tribe of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Hawkesbury
Hawkesbury is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Robyn Preston of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party. It includes all of the City of Hawkesbury and the far north of both The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire. History Hawkesbury was originally created in 1859, replacing part of Electoral district of Cumberland (North Riding), Cumberland (North Riding) and named after the Hawkesbury River. It elected two members simultaneously from 1859 to 1880. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation and absorbed into Electoral district of Cumberland (New South Wales), Cumberland. It was recreated in 1927. Hawkesbury has been safely conservative for most of its existence. Australian Labor Party, Labor held it for three terms after its 1941 New Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Macquarie
The Division of Macquarie ( ) is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Lachlan Macquarie, who was Governor of New South Wales between 1810 and 1821. The division is located to the west of Sydney, and today it covers a large part of the Blue Mountains, as well as the Hawkesbury region on Sydney's western fringe. The current Member for Macquarie, since the 2016 federal election, is Susan Templeman, a member of the Australian Labor Party. In 2019, Macquarie was the most marginal seat in the country, held by a 0.19-point margin on the 2PP. However, in 2022 the Labor margin expanded to a comfortable 7.6 points. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, New South Wales
Richmond is a historic town in northwest Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. Richmond is in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury and is part of the Sydney metropolitan area. It is located 19 metres above sea level on the alluvial Hawkesbury River flats, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. It is about 62 km by road from the Sydney CBD, 22 km from Penrith, 25 km from Blacktown, 39 km from Parramatta, 78 km from Lithgow and 7 km from Windsor. Richmond is now part of the Sydney urban area, with access to various amenities. History The Darug people were the Aboriginal peoples in the area in 1788. The area was originally explored by British settlers in 1789 and the nearby eminence to the west of the Hawkesbury River was known by them as 'Richmond Hill'. The name was given by Governor Arthur Phillip, in honour of Charles Lennox, the third Duke of Richmond who was Master General of Ordnance in the Pitt administration. Richmond was the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated than the city and can have a higher or lower rate of detached single family homes than the city as well. Suburbs can have their own political or legal jurisdictions, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especially in the United Kingdom, where most suburbs are located within the administrative boundaries of cities. In most English-speaking world, English-speaking countries, suburban areas are defined in contrast to core city, central city or inner city areas, but in Australian English and South African English, ''suburb'' has become largely synonymous with what is called a "neighborhood" in the U.S. Due in part to historical trends such as white flight, some suburbs in the United States have a higher population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral Sea, Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are Enclave and exclave, enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its Western Australia border, western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobartville Public School
Hobartville is a heritage-listed farm and residence at Kurrajong Road, Richmond, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Hobartville is a pastoral property that, by the 1930s, was described as "the most successful Hereford cattle stud in Australia". The land that became Hobartville was originally two early grants to European colonists: 100 acres (41ha) to James Blackman in 1902 and 400 acres (162ha) to Edward Luttrell in 1804. The grants effectively dominated the area to the south/south-west of Richmond township and 'Luttrell's Line', which determined the extent of the grid layout of the Richmond township. Luttrell's property was known as Hobartville by 1816, at which time it was advertised as having a house, garden and outbuildings. Luttrell's grant was purchased by Lt. William Cox Jr., son of William Cox of (nearby) Clarendon in 1816 and by 1818 he had added Blackman's grant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suburbs Of Sydney
This is a complete listing of the Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburbs and localities in the greater Sydney area in alphabetical order. Sydney has about 30 local government areas, each consisting of several suburbs. Suburbs in Australia are purely geographical, not political, divisions, but have officially defined boundaries. The term “suburban” is used for such defined districts throughout the metropolitan area, even in the city centre. See table below, : Suburbs of Sydney and : Local government areas in Sydney. Suburbs are listed here if they are inside the Sydney metropolitan area, and are listed in the New South Wales Geographical Names Register as being suburbs. For this list, the boundaries of the Sydney metropolitan area are defined as the Hawkesbury/Nepean River in the north/north west, and then the outer boundaries of the City of Penrith, Camden Council (New South Wales), Camden Council, the City of Campbelltown (New South Wales), City of Campbelltown and Sut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
