Warkworth, New South Wales
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| Coordinates: 32°34′30″S 151°01′00″E / 32.57500°S 151.01667°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 65 m (213 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 42 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2330 | ||||||||||||
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Warkworth is a locality in the Singleton Council region of New South Wales, Australia.[4] It had a population of 42 as of the 2021 census.[3]
Warkworth Post Office opened on 1 November 1863 and closed on 30 November 1968.[5]
Warkworth Public School opened as Cockfighter's Creek in May 1859, was renamed Warkworth that June, closed in March 1861, reopened in 1869 and closed in February 1997.[6]
St Philip's Anglican Church has an active congregation and holds fortnightly services.[7] It has a church cemetery with graves dating from 1854 until the present day. The remains of the former Warkworth General Cemetery adjoin the ongoing Anglican cemetery.[8]
It contains an active open-cut coal mine, operated jointly with another mine at Mount Thorley as the Mount Thorley Warkworth operation. It has been owned by Yancoal since 2017.[9]
Heritage listings
Warkworth has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Warkworth (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Warkworth (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Warkworth (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Geographical Names Register Extract". Geographical Names Board. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Warkworth". Phoenix Auctions Reference. Phoenix Auctions. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Warkworth". School History Search. NSW Department of Education. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "St. Philip's, Warkworth". Singleton Anglicans. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Cemetery 398 - Warkworth Anglican". Australian Cemetery Index. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Mount Thorley Warkworth". Yancoal. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Wambo Homestead". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H00200. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.