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Hughes, Australian Capital Territory

Suburb in Canberra, Australia; postcode 2605

Field	Value
type	suburb
name	Hughes
state	act
city	Canberra
image	Hughes Shops.jpg
caption	Hughes local shops
lga	Woden Valley
postcode	2605
est	1963
elevation	592
area	1.8
pop	3,210
pop_year
pop_footnotes
alternative_location_map	Australia ACT districted Canberra
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Canberra
coordinates
stategov	Murrumbidgee
fedgov	Canberra
dist1	8
dir1	SSW
location1	Canberra CBD
dist2	16
dir2	W
location2	Queanbeyan
dist3	103
dir3	SW
location3	Goulburn
dist4	300
dir4	SW
location4	Sydney
near-nw	Curtin
near-n	Deakin
near-ne	Deakin
near-e	Red Hill
near-w	Curtin
near-sw	Phillip
near-s	Garran
near-se	Garran

Hughes is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Woden. The area of the suburb is 1.81 km2.

History

Hughes is named after The Right Honourable William Morris "Billy" Hughes, the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 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.

Geography

Hughes adjoins the suburbs of Deakin, Garran, Phillip 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.

Geology

Hughes has several different kinds of rock from the Silurian period. Shale from the Yarralumla Formation is in the south west. Cream coloured rhyolite from the Mount Painter Volcanics is found in the north west. Dark purple rhyodacite from the Deakin Volcanics is found north of Hughes. In the south east tuff forms a layer on top of the Mount Painter Volcanics. An inactive north west – south east trending fault runs through the middle of the suburb. Movement was down on the north east side.

Demographics

At the , Hughes had a population of 3,210 people.

Suburb amenities

Sign marking the border of Hughes. Contains information about William Hughes.

Shopping

A small shopping centre consists of a take-away restaurant, chemist/sub-newsagency, bakery/cafe, supermarket, post office, dry cleaner, hairdresser, real estate agent, and service station and mechanical workshop.

Recreation

Sporting facilities are North Woden Tennis club and Clarrie Hermes Park (Hughes Oval), 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.

Education

Located in the suburb are Hughes primary school and Hughes pre-school.

Religion

There are three churches in Hughes: Jehovah's Witnesses, Canberra Christadelphians and the Baptist Church

Other

St Andrews village is a retirement village, that was controversially built next to Yarra Glen, the highway bounding the west side of the suburb.

References

{{Census 2021 AUS
"Suburb Name search results". ACT Environment and Sustainable Development.
(1980). "Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs".
"Home".
http://www.hughesps.act.edu.au/ {{Bare URL inline. (August 2024)
http://www.hughesbaptist.org/ {{Bare URL inline. (August 2024)

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