Type: | suburb |
Abermain | |
City: | Cessnock |
State: | nsw |
Coordinates: | -32.8072°N 151.4275°W |
Local Map: | yes |
Zoom: | 13 |
Pop: | 2,337 |
Established: | 1903 |
Established Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
Gazetted: | 24 October 1975 (town)[3] 23 October 2015 (locality)[4] |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Postcode: | 2326[5] |
Elevation: | 29 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [6] |
Area: | 15.3822 |
Area Footnotes: | [7] |
Timezone: | AEST |
Utc: | +10 |
Timezone-Dst: | AEDT |
Utc-Dst: | +11 |
Dist1: | 7.9 |
Dir1: | ENE |
Location1: | Cessnock |
Dist2: | 42.0 |
Dir2: | NW |
Location2: | Newcastle |
Dist3: | 153 |
Dir3: | N |
Location3: | Sydney |
Lga: | Cessnock |
Region: | Hunter |
Parish: | Heddon |
County: | Northumberland |
Stategov: | Cessnock[8] |
Fedgov: | Hunter[9] |
Maxtemp: | 24.2 |
Mintemp: | 10.5 |
Rainfall: | 743.3 |
Near-N: | Sawyers Gully |
Near-Ne: | Weston |
Near-E: | Pelaw Main |
Near-Se: | Richmond Vale |
Near-S: | Cessnock |
Near-Sw: | Cessnock |
Near-W: | Neath |
Near-Nw: | Cessnock |
Abermain is a town 8 km ENE of Cessnock and 3 km west of Weston, in New South Wales, Australia. Abermain is adjacent to Werakata National Park.
Abermain Post Office opened on 1 June 1904. In 1882 Professor Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David was appointed by NSW Department of Mines to undertake a survey to discover the possibility of coal.[10] Australian's second Mine Rescue Station was constructed in 1926 and at cost of £20,000.
Abermain is home to Holy Spirit Infants School and Aspect Hunter School, both non-government schools, and Abermain Public School, founded in 1909.
Les Lumsdon (1912–1977) cartoonist for Newcastle Morning Herald