Tighes Hill
Tighe's Hill is a north-western suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales and was named after A.A.P.
Tighe's Hill is a north-western suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales and was named after A.A.P. Tighe, an early resident, who in 1843 bought the estate. It is primarily a residential area, though it also includes the current Tighes Hill TAFE campus and a commercial area.
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Getting to Tighes Hill
- Airports
- Newcastle (NTL), 14 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 128 km
- Sydney (Mascot) → Tighes Hill125 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · A$20–26
- Gold Coast → Tighes Hill569 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · A$220–330
- Toowoomba → Tighes Hill595 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · 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 Tighes 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 Tighes 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.
From Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tighes Hill
Tighes Hill is 4 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.