Hughes, Australian Capital Territory
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| Hughes Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
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| Population: | 2866 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1963 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2605 | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $412,000 (2005) | ||||||||||||
| District: | Woden Valley | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Molonglo | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Canberra | ||||||||||||
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Hughes is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Woden. The postcode is 2605. The area of the suburb is 1.81 km².
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[edit] History
Hughes is named after The Right Honourable William Morris "Billy" Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915-1923. Streets in the suburb are named with the theme of World War I armed services personnel and contemporaries of William Hughes. The suburb was gazetted on 20 September 1962, with a population of nine. Residential construction began in 1963, and by 1974 Hughes had a population of 4050.
[edit] Geography
Hughes adjoins the suburbs of Deakin, Garran, Philip and Curtin. It is bounded by Carruthers Street to the North, Yarra Glen and Yamba Drive to the West, and the Red Hill area of Canberra Nature Park to the East and South.
[edit] Demographics
At the time of the 2001 Australian census, the population of Hughes was 2866.
[edit] Suburb amenities
[edit] Shopping
A small shopping centre consists of a take-away restaurant, chemist/sub-newsagency, bakery/cafe, supermarket, post office/DVD rental store, dry cleaner, hairdresser, real estate agent, and service station.
[edit] Recreation
Sporting facilities are North Woden Tennis club and Clarrie Hermes park, as well as three local area playgrounds.
Walking trails commence in the north-east of the suburb which run to the north of Federal Golf Course through to Red Hill Nature Reserve. Parts of the suburb have views over the Woden valley and the Woden town centre to the northern reaches of the Brindabellas.
[edit] Education
Located in the suburb are Hughes primary school and Hughes pre-school.
[edit] Other
St Andrews village is a retirement villiage, that was controversially built next to Yarra Glenn, the highway bounding the west side of the suburb.
[edit] Geology
Yarralumla Formation calcareous shale is in south west. Deakin Volcanics coarse dark purple rhyodacite is in the north. Mount Painter Volcanics cream rhyolite is in north west. Deakin Volcanics purple and green tuff in south east overlies the Mount Painter Volcanics. A north west - south east trending fault runs though the middle of the suburb. Movement was down on the north east side.
