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Wickham is an inner suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Newcastle's central business district.
[edit] Origin
Wickham which was a Misspelling of Whickham, a suburb of Newcastle-on-Tyne in the north of England. Means village by the creek. Wickham was proclaimed a Municipality in the NSW Government Gazette, 27 February 1871[1], largely by the efforts of James Hannell, who became Wickham's first mayor.[2].
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It has a station (opened in 1936) on CityRail's Newcastle and Central Coast line and Hunter line. The railway line is part of the Newcastle-Maitland line, the first section of the Main North line from Sydney to the New England region, opened in 1857.[3]
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