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Castle Hill is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located 34 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district [3] and 9.5 kilometres north of Parramatta. [4] It is within the Hills District region, split between the local government areas of The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire .
Castle Hill is a suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [2] The suburb is based on and around the mountain of the same name. [3] The Indigenous name for the mountain is Cootharinga, sometimes written as Cooderinga. [4] [5] In the 2021 census, Castle Hill had a population of 972 people. [1]
Castle Hill as seen from the Strand, Townsville Monolithic Castle Hill dominates the Townsville coastline. Castle Hill is a heritage-listed isolated pink granite monolith in the suburb of Castle Hill, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [1] [2] Its Indigenous name is Cootharinga, sometimes written as Cooderinga. [3] [4]
Castle Hill is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Mark Hodges of the Liberal Party . It is a conservative urban electorate in the Hills District in Sydney 's north west.
Castle Hill Heritage Park is significant principally for its association with the participants in the Castle Hill convict rebellion, [1] also known as the Second Battle of Vinegar Hill. The Second Battle of Vinegar Hill holds a seminal, but only relatively recently recognised, place in Australian ethnic, religious and political history.
The Castle Hill convict rebellion was a convict rebellion in Castle Hill, Sydney, then part of the British colony of New South Wales.Led by veterans of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the poorly armed insurgents confronted the colonial forces of Australia on 5 March 1804 at Rouse Hill.
A steam tramway opened between Parramatta and Baulkham Hills in 1902, and was extended to Castle Hill in 1910, carrying passengers and produce to and from the area. [1] This tramway departed at Argyle St in Parramatta and tracked north along Church Street to Northmead, then along Windsor Road and Old Northern Road to Castle Hill.
The remainder of Kellyville comprises parts of the former Castle Hill. Based on the results of the 2019 election, it was a very safe seat for the Liberal Party with an estimated notional margin of 23.1 percent. [2] Ray Williams was elected in the 2023 New South Wales state election. [3]