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Seahampton

Seahampton
FieldValue
typesuburb
nameSeahampton
cityGreater Newcastle
statensw
alternative_location_mapAustralia Hunter Central Coast
coordinates
lgaCity of Lake Macquarie
lga2City of Maitland
postcode2286
pop311
pop_year
pop_footnotes
area0.5
parishTeralba
stategovCessnock
fedgovHunter
dist121
dir1W
location1Newcastle
dist223
dir2SSE
location2Maitland
near-nwRichmond Vale
near-nStockrington
near-neMinmi
near-wRichmond Vale
near-eMinmi
near-swWest Wallsend
near-seCameron Park

| near-nw = Richmond Vale | near-n = Stockrington | near-ne = Minmi | near-w = Richmond Vale | near-e = Minmi | near-sw = West Wallsend | near-se = Cameron Park Seahampton is a hamlet situated north of West Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, located 21 km west of the city of Newcastle's central business district and west of the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway. It is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area.

Seaham No.1 Colliery in 1900.

Seahampton's origins are in coal mining. Seaham No. 1 Colliery was opened here on 6 March 1890 by the Monkwearmouth Coal Company which was reformed and renamed the Seaham Coal Company Ltd., in 1896. The shaft was 460 ft deep and serviced the Borehole seam which here was about five feet nine inches thick.

Its peak production was 1,450 tons per day and the coal was shipped via the company's private railway to the New South Wales Government line at Cockle Creek Junction. The colliery closed on 7 July 1932, during the Great Depression, and never re-opened.

The township of Seahampton was surveyed in 1889 to provide homesites for colliery employees.

History

The Aboriginal people, in this area, the Awabakal, were the first people of this land.

References

  • Neath Mount Sugarloaf – Book 2, West Wallsend Public School Centenary Committee, 1988, pp. 34–37,

References

  1. {{Census 2011 AUS
  2. "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people".
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