Wickham, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Wickham
city = Newcastle
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Newcastle
postcode = 2293
pop = 893 (2006 census)
area = 0.7
est =
parish = Newcastle
stategov = Newcastle
fedgov = Newcastle
dist1 = 3
dir1 = WNW
location1= Newcastle
near-nw = Maryville
near-n = Maryville
near-ne = Carrington
near-w = Islington
near-e = Carrington
near-sw = Hamilton
near-s = Hamilton East
near-se = Newcastle West

Wickham is an inner suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located convert|3|km|mi|1|lk=on from Newcastle's central business district.

Origin

Wickham which was a Misspelling of Whickham, a suburb of Newcastle-on-Tyne in the north of England. Means village by the creek. Wickham was proclaimed a Municipality in the NSW Government Gazette, 27 February 1871 [ [http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/discover_newcastle/visit_our_libraries/council_history Council History] ] , largely by the efforts of James Hannell, who became Wickham's first mayor. [ [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040383b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography (Online Edition)] ] .

Railway

It has a station (opened in 1936) on CityRail's Newcastle and Central Coast line and Hunter line. The railway line is part of the Newcastle-Maitland line, the first section of the Main North line from Sydney to the New England region, opened in 1857.cite web
title = Newcastle Branch
publisher=www.nswrail.net
url = http://www.nswrail.net/lines/show.php?name=NSW:newcastle
accessdate = 2006-11-23 ]

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