Everything about Hughes Australian Capital Territory totally explained
Hughes is a suburb in the
Canberra,
Australia district of
Woden. The postcode is 2605. The area of the suburb is 1.81 km².
History
Hughes is named after
The Right Honourable William Morris "Billy" Hughes, seventh
Prime Minister of Australia from 1915-1923. 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, Philip 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.
Demographics
At the time of the 2001 Australian census, the population of Hughes was 2866.
Suburb amenities
Shopping
A small shopping centre consists of a take-away restaurant, chemist/sub-newsagency, bakery/cafe, supermarket, post office/DVD rental store, dry cleaner, hairdresser, real estate agent, and service station.
Recreation
Sporting facilities are North Woden Tennis club and Clarrie Hermes park, 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 . 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.
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.
Geology
Yarralumla Formation calcareous
shale is in south west.
Deakin Volcanics coarse dark purple
rhyodacite is in the north.
Mount Painter Volcanics cream
rhyolite is in north west.
Deakin Volcanics purple and green
tuff in south east overlies the Mount Painter Volcanics.
A north west - south east trending fault runs though the middle of the suburb. Movement was down on the north east side.
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