Seahampton, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Seahampton
city = Lake Macquarie
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Lake Macquarie
postcode = 2286
coordinates =
pop = 353 (2006 census)
area = 0.5
est =
parish = Teralba
stategov = Cessnock
fedgov = Charlton
dist1 = 21
dir1 = W
location1= Newcastle
dist2 = 23
dir2 = SSE
location2= Maitland
near-nw = Richmond Vale
near-n = Stockrington
near-ne = Minmi
near-w = Richmond Vale
near-e = Minmi
near-sw = West Wallsend
near-se = Cameron Park

Seahampton is a hamlet situated north of West Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, located convert|21|km|mi|0|lk=on west of the city of Newcastle's central business district and west of the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway. It is regarded as a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area. Seahampton's origins are in coal mining. Seaham No. 1 Colliery was opened here on March 6, 1890 by the Monkwearmouth Coal Company which was reformed and renamed the Seaham Coal Company Ltd., in 1896. The shaft was 460 feet deep and serviced the Borehole seam which here was about five feet nine inches thick.

Its peak production was 1,450 tons per day and the coal was shipped via the company's private railway to the New South Wales Government line at Cockle Creek Junction. The colliery closed on July 7, 1932, during the Great Depression, and never re-opened.

The township of Seahampton was surveyed in 1889 to provide homesites for colliery employees.

References

* "Neath Mount Sugarloaf - Book 2", West Wallsend Public School Centenary Committee, 1988, p.34-37, ISBN 0-7316-3401-2