West Hobart Recreation Ground

West Hobart Recreation Ground is a recreation area in Hobart, Tasmania. West Hobart Recreation Ground is situated nearby to Caldew Park, as well as near the playground Caldew, The Train Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Mary’s Cathedral and Cascades Female Factory.

St Mary’s Cathedral

Church

Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.

St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, presently Anthony Ireland. The cathedral's origins can be traced back to 1822 when the first permanent Tasmanian priest Philip Conolly constructed a temporary wooden chapel near the present cathedral site and dedicated to God, under the invocation of St. St Mary’s Cathedral is situated 1 km east of West Hobart Recreation Ground.

Cascades Female Factory

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Cascades Female Factory, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in South Hobart, Tasmania. Cascades Female Factory is situated 1½ km southwest of West Hobart Recreation Ground.

Royal Hobart Hospital

Hospital

Photo: Shkuru Afshar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Royal Hobart Hospital is a public hospital in the Hobart CBD, Tasmania, Australia. The hospital also functions as a teaching hospital in co-operation with the University of Tasmania. Royal Hobart Hospital is situated 1½ km east of West Hobart Recreation Ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Hobart and Mount Stuart.

West Hobart

Suburb

Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

West Hobart is an inner-city suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is in the hills immediately west of the Hobart central business district.

Mount Stuart

Suburb

Mount Stuart is a suburb of Hobart that lies on a ridge that extends from a foothill of Mount Wellington, known as Knocklofty.

North Hobart

Suburb

Photo: Tasmanian Wanderer, CC BY-SA 4.0.

North Hobart is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It lies directly north of the Hobart central business district. The main street of North Hobart is Elizabeth Street, which extends northward from the Elizabeth Street Mall in the city, through North Hobart, and then becomes the Main Road in New Town and continues through many suburbs to Glenorchy and beyond.

West Hobart Recreation Ground

Type: Recreation area
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-42.88085° or 42° 52′ 51″ south

Longitude

147.30882° or 147° 18′ 32″ east

Open location code

4R994895+MG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 609395778

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=recreation_ground

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Caldew Park and Caldew, The Train Park.

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