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Suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Cardiff Heights

Cardiff Heights is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

The place

Cardiff Heights is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is located 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Newcastle's central business district, and is part of the City of Lake Macquarie West Ward.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cardiff Heights

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Edgeworth

    Edgeworth is a suburb of Greater Newcastle, City of Lake Macquarie local government area in New South Wales, Australia, located 18 kilometres west of Newcastle's central business district.

    1.5 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Cardiff Heights

Airports
Newcastle (NTL), 24 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 122 km
Stations
Cockle Creek railway station, 3.6 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Cardiff Heights
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · A$19–26
  • Gold Coast → Cardiff Heights
    574 km · quickest by air, 5h 28m · A$240–360
  • Toowoomba → Cardiff Heights
    598 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · A$230–350
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cardiff Heights

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cardiff Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards.

From Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    869 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,216 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,355 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,919 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,224 km

If you know how people move in Cardiff Heights – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Cardiff Heights

Cardiff Heights is 15 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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