Belmont (New South Wales)

Belmont is a village ( Suburb ) of Lake Macquarie City in the state of New South Wales and is located about 20 km south of the city center of Newcastle on a tongue of land between Lake Macquarie and the Pacific. In Belmont 6,476 inhabitants.

History

Already in 1825 a mission was established in the area of Belmont in the area of ​​Aboriginal tribe Old Jacky's, but she moved after four years at the western side of Lake Macquarie in the Toronto area. Emerged only in the 60s there again settlements, in addition to the Agriculture and Forestry drew the coal mining people in the area. Opened in 1866 Thomas Williamson and Robert Kirkaldy Belmont House, a guest house, which was probably named after the birthplace of Williamson on the Scottish Shetland Islands and later the whole village gave the name. Mid-70s, there were in the center of the village hotel, school, church and post office as well as a shipbuilding operation and in the 80's passed you the number of 100 inhabitants.

By 1916, the traffic roads led to Belmont via the Macquarie Lake or along roads north towards Newcastle. On December 23, 1916, the rail link across the north-east location Redhead to Newcastle, which was in operation until 1971 opened. Since 1937 there is a public bus service to Newcastle.

During the period, the population grew dramatically from about 500 residents in the 20's over 2,000 mid- 30s to over 4,800 in 1947. Since larger land areas of Belmont but are privately owned, there has never been a town of Belmont, but a larger settlement area distributed several Suburbs, one of which is called the central Belmont. Adjacent Suburbs are Belmont North, Belmont South, Redhead and Valentine.

Infrastructure

1968 Belmont Hospital was founded, the only public hospital in the Lake Macquarie area. Furthermore, there is also a Belmont Campus of the Hunter Institute of Technology. Although coal production in the region was in the 1980 set, but many companies have taken their place, also the tourism industry at Macquarie Lake is an important economic factor.

About four kilometers south of the center of Belmont is located Belmont Airport, an airfield, which was rebuilt in 2007 and again in 2008 to connect to the approximately 130 km south -lying metropolis to offer Sydney.