Largs is a developing township adjacent to Bolwarra Heights and is a suburb in the City of Maitland in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the eastern side of the Hunter River, 6 km north of the Maitland CBD. As of 2018, the Maitland LGA is seeing new development along elevated areas adjacent to the river flood plain. Maitland is an established city. Schools and all normal community facilities are available. The City of Maitland covers an area of 390 square kilometres.
| Largs New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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 The sign at the entry to the town of Largs | |||||||||||||||
  Largs | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°42′14.3″S 151°36′4.1″E / 32.703972°S 151.601139°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 1,940 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2320 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 3 to 40 m (10 to 131 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | AEDT (UTC+11) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Maitland City Council[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Hunter[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Northumberland[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Parish | Maitland[3] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Maitland[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Lyne[5] | ||||||||||||||
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Name
editLargs was named in honour of Largs Ayrshire, Scotland, famous for the battle of Largs fought in 1263, and which secured the freedom and independence of Scotland against the invasion of the Norwegians.[7]
History
editThe traditional owners and custodians of the Maitland area are the Wonnarua people.[8]
In the pioneering days, Largs was established by Cedar getters, before the Lang family settlement in 1821. Largs was industrially important, as it became a river port and boat-building town before the Hunter River changed course. Largs Public School, established in 1838, is the New South Wales public school that has operated for the longest continuous time from the same site[9][10] and is one of the oldest still operating schools in Australia.
Geography
editLargs covers an area of 7.72 square kilometres (2.98 sq mi) and is predominantly located on the Hunter River and Paterson River floodplains with a minimum elevation of 3 metres (9.8 ft) rising to low hills in the west with a maximum height of 40 metres (130 ft).[11]
Almost all (over 90%) of the original vegetation (pre-1760) has been cleared.[12] The floodplains has been developed primarily for irrigation which includes grazing cattle, growing lucerne, vegetables and turf. The low hills in the west contain the town of Largs with mainly residential development and a small number of commercial buildings.
There are two distrinctive landscape groups in Largs. The first group is the Hunter landscape group (hu and hub) which are extensive alluvial plains on recent alluvium from the Hunter and Paterson Rivers. It slopes <1% and is made up of completely cleared tall open-forest and closed-forest.[13] The second landscape group is the Bolwarra Heights group (bh) which are rolling low hills on Permian sediments, with slopes 5 to 20% and cleared tall open-forest.[13]
Under the Köppen-Geiger classification, Largs has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa).[14]
Transport
editHunter Valley Buses operates one bus route through Largs:
- 185: Maitland to Gresford via Bolwarra, Woodville and Paterson[15]
References
edit- ^ a b "Suburb Search – Local Council Boundaries – Hunter (HT) – Maitland City Council". New South Wales Division of Local Government. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Largs (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Largs". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ "Maitland". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ "Profile of the electoral division of Lyne (NSW)". Australian Electoral Commission. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ a b c "Paterson (Tocal AWS)". Climate statistics for Australian locations. Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ Jervis, James (September 1953). "The Hunter Valley". Royal Australian Historical Society. 39 (3). Sydney: The Society: 97–152. ISSN 1325-9261. Retrieved 13 September 2021 – via Trove.
- ^ "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples". Maitland City Council. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ "Government Schools of NSW from 1848 – Chronological List". Department of Education and Communities. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Largs Public School – Our School". NSW Department of Education and Communities. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Spatial Map Viewer". NSW Spatial Services. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ "Maitland Greening Plan". Maitland City Council. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Soil Landscapes of the Newcastle 1:100,000 Sheet". NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation. 1995. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ "Climate: Hunter Valley". climate-data.org. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ "| transportnsw.info". transportnsw.info. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
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