Where to Stay in Maitland, State of New South Wales

What is Maitland known for?

It grew rich in the eighteen-hundreds as a port and market on the Hunter River, serving the farms and coalfields around, and it keeps a grand main street of Victorian shops and churches, old houses and an art gallery, in the heart of the wine country. The river winds through the flats. Heritage and river mark the city.

What are the main landmarks in Maitland?

The old main street runs through the heart of Maitland. The long High Street of Victorian shops, banks, and churches, all iron lace and stone, marks the old town, the emblem of the city, by the river. Fine old houses stand nearby.

Grossman House and other grand homes from the port days keep the heritage, while the art gallery and Saint Peter's church mark the streets of Maitland.

What is the history of Maitland?

Maitland grew as a river port of the Hunter. Boats came up the Hunter River from the coast to the town, which became the great market and port of the valley, handling the wheat, cattle, and coal of the district. Grand streets rose on the trade.

Merchants built a long main street of fine Victorian shops, banks, and churches, and the town for a time rivalled the ports of the coast. The river gave and took away. The Hunter flooded again and again, and the great flood of nineteen fifty-five drowned the low town and drove thousands from their homes.

Coal and vines went on. The mines of the Hunter and the vineyards of the valley kept the district rich, and Maitland stayed its market and its heart. The old streets still line the river.

Maitland keeps its heritage and its river in the Hunter Valley.

Where is Maitland?

Maitland lies on the Hunter River in New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The city sits on the flat river plain of the lower Hunter Valley, among vineyards and old coal country, inland from Newcastle and the coast. Green flats spread along the river.

The low hills rise to the north.

What is the climate of Maitland?

Maitland has a warm, humid climate. Warm summers and mild winters cross the valley, and rain falls through the year off the coast, while the river floods in the wettest seasons. Summer storms sweep the flats.

The valley stays green much of the year.

How do you get to Maitland?

Maitland lies in the lower Hunter Valley, inland from Newcastle in New South Wales. Trains and the highway run to it from Newcastle and Sydney down the coast, and roads run up the valley into the wine and coal country. Local buses run out to the other Hunter Valley towns.

Most arrive by road from Newcastle.