Cooks Hill
Cooks Hill is an inner city suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Cooks Hill is an inner city suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is typified by its tree lined streets, rows of Victorian terrace housing, turn of the century timber cottages and corner pubs.
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Worth seeing in and around Cooks Hill
10 places 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.
- 01Newcastle Art Gallery
The Newcastle Art Gallery, formerly the Newcastle City Art Gallery and Newcastle Region Art Gallery, is a large public art museum in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
600 m · public art museum in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hamilton
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hamilton, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle and the seat and residence of the Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The position is currently held by Bishop Michael Kennedy, who was installed on 2 February 2023 following the death of Bishop William Wright on 13 November 2021.
1.9 km · catholic cathedral in Australia · Wikipedia - 03Newcastle Museum
Newcastle Museum is in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The museum is connected with Newcastle Libraries.
1.4 km · regional museum in Newcastle, New South Wales · Wikipedia - 04Newcastle Number 1 Sports Ground
Newcastle Number 1 Sports Ground is a multi-use stadium located in Newcastle, New South Wales, and has a nominated capacity of approximately 10,000. It neighbours Newcastle Number 2 Sports Ground.
600 m · Sports ground in Newcastle, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Newcastle Entertainment Centre
Newcastle Entertainment Centre is a multi-purpose Australian arena within the Newcastle Showground. It was opened in 1992.
3.4 km · multi-purpose Australian arena · Wikipedia - 06Newcastle Civic Theatre
The Newcastle Civic Theatre, also known as The Civic, is a heritage-listed building located on Hunter Street, Newcastle, Australia. Opened in 1929, the 1520-seat theatre is now the venue for a wide range of musicals, plays, concerts and dance events each year and is the city's oldest surviving theatre.
800 m · theatre in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
The Cathedral Church of Christ the King, also called Christ Church Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral in Newcastle, New South Wales. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Newcastle in the Anglican Church of Australia.
1.2 km · church in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Newcastle Customs House
The Newcastle Customs House, also known as the Customs House Hotel, is a heritage-listed building designed by James Barnet located at the corner of Bond Street and Watt Street in Newcastle, New South Wales. Built in the Italianate Renaissance Revival style popular at the time, the building suffered damage during the 1989 Newcastle earthquake and reopened as a hotel in 1995.
1.6 km · heritage listed building in Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 09Nobbys Head Light
Nobbys Head Light is an active lighthouse on Nobbys Head, a headland on the south side of the entrance to Newcastle Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. An image of the lighthouse is included in the coat of arms of the City of Newcastle.
3.1 km · lighthouse in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 10Victoria Theatre
The Victoria Theatre is a heritage-listed former theatre at 8–10 Perkins Street, Newcastle, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It was opened in 1876 and rebuilt during 1890–1891, and is the oldest theatre still standing in New South Wales.
1 km · theatre and cinema in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cooks Hill
- Airports
- Newcastle (NTL), 16 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 125 km
- Stations
- Wickham railway station, 1.5 km · Broadmeadow railway station, 3.5 km · Hamilton railway station, 2.6 km · Civic railway station, 900 m
- Sydney (Mascot) → Cooks Hill123 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · A$20–27
- Gold Coast → Cooks Hill571 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · A$230–340
- Toowoomba → Cooks Hill598 km · quickest by air, 5h · A$220–330
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cooks Hill
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 Cooks Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThere is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards.
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Next door to Cooks Hill
Cooks Hill is 1 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Newcastlecity in New South Wales, Australia2.6 km
- Bar Beachsuburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia700 m
- Broadmeadowsuburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
- Merewether Heightslocality in New South Wales, Australia3.6 km
- Tighes Hilllocality in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
- Carringtonsuburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia2.1 km