Table Top is an outer suburb of the city of
Albury
Albury (; ) is a major regional city that is located in the Murray River, Murray region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the twin city of Albury–Wodonga, Albury-Wodonga and is located on the Hume Highway and the northern side of ...
, New South Wales, located north of
Albury
Albury (; ) is a major regional city that is located in the Murray River, Murray region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the twin city of Albury–Wodonga, Albury-Wodonga and is located on the Hume Highway and the northern side of ...
and west of
Bowna. At the , Table Top had a population of 1,516.
The area used to be part of the
Greater Hume Shire but was recently integrated into the
City of Albury
The City of Albury (stylised as AlburyCity) is a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The area covers to the north of the Murray River. The area extends around east and west along the river from the centr ...
.
Table Top is located in the flat area north of Albury, bounded by the
Greater Hume Shire, including
Jindera, to the north, and the suburbs of
Hamilton Valley,
Springdale Heights,
Thurgoona
Thurgoona is an outer suburb of the regional city of Albury, New South Wales, Albury in southern New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is located in the City of Albury Local government in Australia, local government area.
History
Thurgoona ...
and
Wirlinga to the south.
History
Yambla Post Office opened on 1 April 1886, was renamed Table Top in 1895 and closed in 1968.
Today
Table Top is a rural and agricultural area, with a large part of the population living in an area around the
Norske Skog
Norske Skog ASA, formerly Norske Skogindustrier ASA, which translates as ''Norwegian Forest Industries'', is a Norwegian pulp and paper company established in 1962. The company has long been one of the world's leading manufacturers of newsprint ...
Paper Mill.
Features of the area include the original
Ettamogah Pub
The Ettamogah Pub is a cartoon pub that was featured in the now defunct '' Australasian Post'' magazine. The cartoonist Ken Maynard, loving empty spaces and having nothing around him, enjoyed an area just outside Albury at Table Top, New South W ...
(based on a cartoon pub by Ken Maynard that was featured in the now defunct
Australasian Post
The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine.
History and profile
Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victori ...
magazine), the Ettamogah Wildlife Sanctuary (later called Oze Wildlife; now closed), several wineries and Table Top Public School.
Geography
The Table Top area is mostly flat, but includes part of the Black Range in the south and east. Part of the area is the north-western part of
Lake Hume.
Residents
In the , the population of Table Top was 1,516.
The most common religion was Catholic, followed by
Anglican
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
, and the median household income was $2,475, above the NSW average of $1,829. The median age was 42.
References
{{City of Albury suburbs
Suburbs of Albury, New South Wales
Hume Highway