Wickham, New South Wales

Wickham is an inner suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 3 km from Newcastle's central business district.

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, largely by the efforts of James Hannell, who became Wickham's first mayor. .

Railway
Wickham railway station opened 2 Sep 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.