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Suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Elermore Vale

Elermore Vale is a suburb on the western outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales.

The place

Elermore Vale is a suburb on the western outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales. Before becoming a residential suburb in the 1900s, the area was used for chicken farming, cattle farming, and coal mining. By the 1960s, the school and the other facilities of the suburb had been established.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elermore Vale

6 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.

  1. 01
    Cardiff

    Cardiff is a suburb in the Lake Macquarie LGA of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 17 kilometres west-southwest of Newcastle.

    3.3 km · suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Garden Suburb

    Garden Suburb is a small semi-rural suburb in the City of Lake Macquarie local government area in the Greater Newcastle area in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 2 kilometres east of Cardiff.

    3.7 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hunter Medical Research Institute

    The Hunter Medical Research Institute is a medical research institute located in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1998, the research institute is a partnership between the University of Newcastle, Hunter New England Local Health District, and the community.

    2.4 km · Australian medical research institute · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Gardens Greyhound and Sporting Complex

    Ladbrokes Gardens is an Australian stadium located in Newcastle, New South Wales. The complex is known as Newcastle Greyhounds when it was used as a greyhound racing venue.

    2.8 km · stadium in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.5 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wallsend Railway Goods Shed

    Wallsend Railway Goods Shed is a heritage-listed former goods shed at 76 Cowper Street, Wallsend, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Wallsend Locomotive Shed.

    1.3 km · historic site in 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.

Go there

Getting to Elermore Vale

Airports
Newcastle (NTL), 20 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 123 km
Stations
Cardiff railway station, 3 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Elermore Vale
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · A$19–25
  • Gold Coast → Elermore Vale
    572 km · quickest by air, 5h 23m · A$230–350
  • Toowoomba → Elermore Vale
    596 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · A$230–350
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elermore Vale

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 Elermore Vale. 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

    868 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,216 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,360 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,916 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,228 km

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

Around it

Next door to Elermore Vale

Elermore Vale is 11 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.