18-517: Abermain is a town 8 km ENE of Cessnock and 3 km west of Weston , in New South Wales , Australia . Abermain is adjacent to Werakata National Park . Abermain Post Office opened on 1 June 1904. In 1882 Professor Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David was appointed by NSW Department of Mines to undertake a survey to discover the possibility of coal. Australian's second Mine Rescue Station
36-469: A suburb in Greater Western Sydney to the south. Summers may be dry due to their inland location, but humid days are not uncommon. Winters are usually dry with cold nights, which may be frosty . Cessnock is serviced by a number of regional newspapers, radio stations and television stations. Radio stations include: Cessnock was featured in national tech news in 2020 with the release of
54-625: A video game called Cessnock.Life, which is a fictional simulation game based in Cessnock. The PACC is a Local Government owned theatre that holds concerts, plays and community events. Originally opened in 2008 and known as the Cessnock Performing Arts Centre it frequently has acts shows such as comedians, tribute bands and musicals, as well as other events such as drama lessons. The city has many sporting facilities. The city competes in several regional sporting competitions, particularly
72-684: Is a city in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales , Australia , about 52 km (32 mi) by road west of Newcastle . It is the administrative centre of the City of Cessnock LGA and was named after an 1826 grant of land called Cessnock Estate, which was owned by John Campbell. The local area was once known as "The Coalfields", and it is the gateway city to the vineyards of the Hunter Valley, which includes Pokolbin , Mount View , Lovedale , Broke , Rothbury , and Branxton . The Wonnarua people are
90-534: Is held on the local championship courses of Pokolbin. Cessnock was the base camp for the Japan national football team during the 2015 AFC Asian Cup . For a century Cessnock was served by the South Maitland Railway network, originally constructed for the coal industry, but which at one time had considerable passenger services terminating at Cessnock railway station , including a direct train to Sydney known as
108-616: Is located in the rich alluvial and volcanic soils of the Hunter Valley. Rich coal seams underlie much of the area. The Brokenback Range (part of the Great Dividing Range ) rises to the west of the city. The Hunter River flows down the Hunter Valley approximately 20 km (12 mi) to the north. Cessnock lies within the Hunter Valley Important Bird Area . Cessnock has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) with hot summers and cool winters, similar to Penrith ,
126-491: Is placed just to the north of the city, at the entrance to the Vineyard District. It has a small public passenger terminal and also serves as the base for aviation training organisations such as Avondale College 's school of Aviation and Hunter Valley Aviation. The airport is not served by RPT flights. Access by air to the region is by Newcastle Airport at Williamtown , 53 km (33 mi) away. The local bus service
144-643: Is run by Rover Coaches which provide services to Maitland, Newcastle and Morisset and school bus services. Greater Cessnock contains a number of buildings and sites that are on the Register of the National Estate . In 2021, Cessnock had an amphetamine use/possession rate of 137.1 per 100,000, which is significantly higher than the NSW state average of '90.0 per 100,000. The suburb of Cessnock had an assault incidents crime rate of 1264.6 per 100,000 people in 2019, which
162-707: Is significantly higher than the NSW state average of 822.3 during the same period. Allandale, New South Wales Allandale is a locality in Cessnock and Maitland in the Hunter Region of New South Wales , Australia . The traditional owners and custodians of the Maitland area are the Wonnarua people. A large land grant of 1,000 acres (405 ha) was allocated to Alexander Anderson in 1825, which he named "Allandale". This City of Cessnock geography article
180-641: The 2021 census , there were 63,632 people in the Cessnock LGA. The decline of mining on the South Maitland Coalfields has been paralleled by growth in the wine industry and better access to other employment centres. The Hunter Valley wine-growing area near Cessnock is Australia's oldest wine region and one of the most famous, with around 1,800 hectares (4,448 acres) under vine. The vineyards of Pokolbin, Mount View and Allandale , with their rich volcanic soils tended by entrepreneurial vignerons, are also
198-756: The Cessnock Flyer . The Sydney–Newcastle Freeway 's Cessnock exit at Freemans Waterhole provides one of the main road connections from Sydney to Cessnock via The Gap, a pass through the Watagan Mountains range just north of Mount Heaton. Until the Hunter Expressway opened in 2014, linking the New England Highway at Branxton and the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway at West Wallsend , through traffic passed through Cessnock. The local airport
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#1732870200923216-541: The Cessnock Goannas competing in Newcastle-based rugby league competition. Some very successful sporting players can trace their roots to the local district, including Australian Rugby League representative players and brothers Andrew and Matthew Johns . World-renowned golfer and TV commentator Jack Newton is also from Cessnock. His annual Sub-Juniors Golf Tournament has unearthed some talented young golfers and
234-523: The South Maitland coalfields generated extensive land settlement between 1903 and 1923. The current pattern of urban development, transport routes and industrial landscape was laid at this time. The surveying of the Greta coal seam by Professor Edgeworth David around 1888 became the impetus for considerable social and economic change in the area with the development of the coal mining industry. According to
252-528: The traditional owners of the Cessnock area. Many were killed or died as a result of European diseases after colonisation. Others were forced onto neighbouring tribal territory and killed. The city of Cessnock features many Indigenous place names including Congewai , Kurri Kurri , Laguna , Nulkaba and Wollombi . Lying between Australia's earliest European settlements – Sydney , the Hawkesbury River and Newcastle , pastoralists commenced settlement of
270-424: The city centre since 2001. The local council was one of the first to introduce a recycling program for waste disposal in the state. Most employment comes from the local port city of Newcastle, the nearby major centres of Maitland and Singleton and in service industries in the local council area, which comprises many small towns, such as Kurri Kurri, Weston , Neath , Abernethy , Kearsley and Pokolbin. The town
288-466: The focus of a thriving and growing tourism industry. The extension and eventual completion of the F3 Freeway , created a property and tourism boom during the 1990s. Cessnock has begun to develop other tourist ventures beyond the wine industry such as championship golf courses, hot air ballooning, sky-diving, and guest house accommodation. The city council has actively pursued a policy of urban renewal in
306-542: The land in the 1820s. Cessnock was named by Scottish settler John Campbell, after his grandfather's baronial Cessnock Castle in Galston, East Ayrshire , to reflect the aristocratic heritage and ambitions for this estate. The township of Cessnock developed from 1850, as a service centre at the junction of the Great North Road from Sydney to the Hunter Valley, with branches to Maitland and Singleton . The establishment of
324-512: Was constructed in 1926 and at cost of £20,000. Abermain is home to Holy Spirit Infants School and Aspect Hunter School, both non-government schools, and Abermain Public School, founded in 1909. Les Lumsdon (1912–1977) cartoonist for Newcastle Morning Herald This City of Cessnock geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cessnock, New South Wales Cessnock ( / ˈ s ɛ s n ɒ k / )
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