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Coal River Settlement
Now called Newcastle.

Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.252.


Port Hunter
An early name for Newcastle.

Flinders, Matthew, A Voyage to Terra Australis: undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in…, London, 1814, vol.2, p.2.

Allens Hill
Now called Signal Hill in Newcastle.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia: in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.6, p.309.


Barrahinebin
A forgotten name for the delta of the Hunter River.

Wells, William Henry, A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies, Sydney, 1848, p.45.

Black Head
Now called Port Stephens, north east of Newcastle.

Rees, Sian, The Floating Brothel…, Sydney, 2001, p.210.


Blackhead Island
Oxley's name for Broughton Island, about 20 km north east of Nelson Bay.

Oxley, John, Journals of two expeditions into the interior of News South Wales undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18, London, 1820, p.350.


Blackhead Island
Named Blackhead by Cook as he could not distinguish it from the mainland. Now called Broughton Island, about 70 km north east of Newcastle.

Johnson, Richard, The Search for the inland Sea John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828, Melbourne, 2001, p.145.


Cabbage Tree Point
Now called Norah Head about 40 km south of Newcastle.

Bride, Thomas Francis (ed.,), Letters from Victorian pioneers:…, Melbourne, 1983, p.81.


Cedar Arms River
Now called Paterson River after the Colonel who succeeded Governor Bligh when he was deposed. It joins the Hunter near Maitland.

Martin, A. E., One thousand and more place names in New South Wales, Sydney, 1943.


Clyde
Was named by Governor Macquarie but the local inhabitants successfully stuck to the Aboriginal name, Karuah, for the river and the settlement on it on Port Stephens.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, p.68.


Coal Island
Now called Nobby's Island at Newcastle.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol. 5, p.35.


Coal River
Named by Lieutenant John Shortland in 1797. Renamed the Hunter River after Governor Hunter.

Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G., Mckernan,Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.234.


Corobeare
Now called Wollombi, about 50 km west of Newcastle.

Foster, William C., Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his World, 1792-1855, Sydney, 1985, p.132.


Ｆalse Bay
So called because ships sometimes mistook its entrance for that of Port Stephens, now called Fingal Bay, just to the south of Nelson Bay.

Appleton, Richard and Barbara, The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, p.104.


First Branch of the Coal River
The first name for Raymond Terrace at the junction of the Hunter, William and Paterson rivers. Colonel William Paterson renamed it Green Hills but its present name was used by 1812.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, p.72.


Fordwich
Now known as Broke, named by Thomas Mitchell after Lt. Colonel Charles Broke, a Peninsular War Companion; about 60 km north west of Newcastle.

Hutton Neve, M. The forgotten valley: history of the Macdonald Valley and St. Albans, N.S.W., Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1978, p.22.

Foster, William C., Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his World, 1792-1855, Sydney, 1985, p.32-3.


Galston Heights
Since 1895 it has been known as Arcadia because of the pastoral character of the area.

Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.10.


Green Hills
Also known as Illalaung. Called Morpeth since 1827 after an English town near Newcastle. In the Hunter Valley.

Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.234.


Hackings Island
So named by Lieutenant John Shortland in 1797; Lieutenant Colonel William Paterson officially named it Coal Island in 1801; now called Nobbys Island, in Newcastle Harbour.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia: in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.6, p.348.


Hannah Bay
So named after the Hannah which was shipwrecked here. Now known as Anna Bay, it is between Port Stephens and Newcastle.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, p.66.


Hebburn
Now called Weston, on the south Maitland coalfield.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia: in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.9, p.268.


Illuluang
Also known as Green Hills. Called Morpeth since 1827 after an English town near Newcastle.

Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.234.


Karuer River
An altanative spelling of Karuah River, falling into Port Stephens.

Cunningham, Peter (David S. Macmillan ed.), Two Years in New South Wales, Sydney, 1966, pp.349, 400.


King's Town
So named by Lieutenant Charles Mengies after Governor King but by 1830 it was known as Newcastle.

Reed, A.W., Place-names of New South Wales: Their Origins and Meanings, Sydney, 1969, p.111.


Macdonald
Earlier known as Bullock Wharf, it became St Albans, after the town north of London, when gazetted in 1841. It is on the Macdonald River about 45 km north west of Gosford.

Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.271.


Molly Morgan's Plains
Now known as West Maitland. Molly was an emancipist who received a land grant in 1825 and established a successful grog shop on it.

Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.233.


Muscle Brook
So gazetted in 1833 but this name was changed to Muswellbrook in 1838. In the Hunter Valley.

Reed, A.W., Place-names of New South Wales: Their Origins and Meanings, Sydney, 1969, p.108.


North East Arm
Now called Brisbane Walker named after Governor Brisbane, just south of Newcastle.

Reed, A.W., Place-names of New South Wales: Their Origins and Meanings, Sydney, 1969, p.25


Old Branch
Now called Patterson's River in the Hunter Valley.

Townsend, R.D., Rambles in New South Wales : the XYZ letters, Sydney, 1986, p.20.


Pelican Flat
Since 1887 it has been called Swansea, just south of Newcastle.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia: in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.8, p.378.


Port Stephen's Branch
Also known as the First Branch but now called the Williams River, in the Hunter valley.

Townsend, R.D, Rambles in New South Wales : the XYZ letters, Sydney, 1996, p.22.


Pudgeway
An Aboriginal word that evolved by the 1860s into Budgewoi, a holiday and retirement resort on Tuggerah Lake, north of Gosford.

Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road, Sydney, 1999, p.109.


Pulga Island
Now called Pulbah Island in Lake Macquarie.

Andrews, Alan E.J., Major Mitchell's map 1834 : the saga of the survey of the nineteen counties / Alan E. J. Andrews., Hobart, 1992, p.103.


Reids Mistake
So named after Captain W. Reid who sailed into Lake Macquarie, just south of Newcastle, when ordered to the Hunter River for coal in 1800. The name was changed in 1826 to Lake Macquarie.

Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.232.


Sand Hill Crossing
Now called Sandgate, close to Newcastle.

Martin, A. E., One thousand and more place names in New South Wales, Sydney, 1943.


Sugarloaf Creek
Now called the Wollombi Brook, about 55 km west of Newcastle.

Raymond, James, New South Wales Calender and General Post Office Directory 1832, Sydney, 1832, p.127.


The Camp
The original name given to East Maitland. Maitland was proclaimed in 1833 but the two townships in the Hunter Valley, East and West Maitland, were only a kilometer or two apart.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, pp.56-7.


Wallis's Plains
The original name of West Maitland. Maitland was proclaimed in 1833 but the two townships in the Hunter Valley, East and West Maitland, were only a kilometer or two apart.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, pp.56-7.


Winding Creek
Now called Cardiff after the Welsh town; about 10km south west of Newcastle.

Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.222


Young Wallsend
Now the Newcastle suburb of Edgeworth, named after Sir Edgeworth David who discovered the main Newcastle coal seam.

Appleton, Richard and Barbara, The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, p.96.