The Hill, New South Wales

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The Hill
Newcastle, New South Wales
File:Beacon Tower Rear.jpg
Beacon Tower, originally 7 m (23 ft) high was extended to 20 m (66 ft) in 1877 after the light had been obscured by the erection of a Wesley Parsonage.
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Population 2,101 (2006 census)[1]
 • Density 3,335/km2 (8,640/sq mi)
Postcode(s) 2300
Area 0.63 km2 (0.2 sq mi)Note1
Time zone AEST (UTC+10)
 • Summer (DST) AEDT (UTC+11)
Location
LGA(s) City of Newcastle[2]
Region Hunter[2]
County Northumberland[3]
Parish Newcastle[3]
State electorate(s) Newcastle[4]
Federal Division(s) Newcastle[5]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
25.5 °C
78 °F		 8.4 °C
47 °F		 1,139.5 mm
44.9 in
Suburbs around The Hill:
Newcastle, Cooks Hill Newcastle Newcastle
Cooks Hill The Hill Newcastle
Bar Beach Tasman Sea Newcastle, Tasman Sea

The Hill is an inner city, residential suburb of Newcastle, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located immediately south of Newcastle's central business district.[2][6] The Hill is filled with historic Victorian terraces and is the site of a historic convict prison block[citation needed].

As of January 2009, the average house price in The Hill was about A$537,500.[7]

Image gallery

  • House1 The Hill.jpg

    Residence building, which is part of St. Mary's Star of Sea Church

  • Jesmond House.jpg

    Jesmond House is a grand mansion of the 1880s with significant historic associations with Newcastle.

  • NewcastleEast.jpg

    Looking east from Jesmond House with Nobbys Head and Stockton Beach in the background.

  • Beacon Tower.jpg

    The obverse face of beacon tower, which was used as a navigational aid. Alterations to the bearings of the entrance channel led to commissioning of new lights in steel towers on other sites on 1 June 1918

  • Christchurch Cathedral Newcastle.JPG

    Christchurch Cathedral.

Notes

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

References

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