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Wallsend is a western suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Newcastle's central business district. It is split between the local government areas of City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie .
Wallsend is a Newcastle suburban electorate, deriving its name from the suburb of the same name, covering 116.83 km 2.It encompasses part or whole of the suburbs of Beresfield, Birmingham Gardens, Black Hill, Callaghan (encompassing Newcastle University), Cardiff, Cardiff Heights, Elermore Vale, Fletcher, Glendale, Hexham, Jesmond, Lambton, Lenaghan, Maryland, Minmi, New Lambton, New Lambton ...
Below is a list of suburbs located within the Greater Newcastle region in New South Wales, Australia.This region (officially the Newcastle statistical subdivision) comprises the local government areas (LGAs) of City of Newcastle, City of Lake Macquarie, City of Cessnock, City of Maitland and Port Stephens Council.
Wallsend, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, has had four incarnations, the first from 1894 to 1904, the second from 1917 to the 1920, the third from 1927 to 1930, and the fourth from 1968 to the present. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Boston Colliery (former Wallsend 'C' Pit [10]), half a mile out of Wallsend. Borehole seam. Operational in 1943 and 1966. - Neal Bros (Wallsend) Pty. Ltd. [6] [8] Burwood 'A' Colliery, Glenrock Lagoon (founded 1877 as Redhead Colliery) - Burwood Coal Mining Company Ltd. Mining here ceased in 1893 and Burwood No.3 instead became the access point ...
The line's main purpose was the transportation of coal from the Wallsend A B and C collieries and Wallsend Borehole collieries to the port of Newcastle. Upon the sinking of the Co-operative Colliery at Plattsburg (where Wallsend High School stands today) a branch from the line, with its junction at Stapleton Street, Wallsend, to that colliery ...
West Wallsend is located in the federal Division of Charlton, which elects one member to the Australian House of Representatives. The current member, 2013 Federal Election, is Australian Labor Party member Pat Conroy. At state level, after a redistribution in 2006, West Wallsend moved from the Lake Macquarie electorate to the Cessnock ...
Elermore Vale Public School and Wallsend South public school. The Elermore Hotel was the starting and finishing point for the annual Shaft Shuffle Fun Run, organised by the Elermore Vale Lions. [7] [clarification needed] In 2016 the median age of resident was 40, 81.5% were born in Australia and 84.9% only spoke English at home. [8]