Eleebana, New South Wales

Croudace Bay is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It was named after Thomas Croudace a mining engineer for the Scottish-Australian Mining Company. The town has Croudace Bay Sports where rugby league , netball , cricket and tennis are played. In 2016 574 people lived there with the median age of 41. 27.8 5 had No Religion, 25.3% Anglican, 21.0% Catholic, 6.9% United Church and 6.4% Not Stated. 93.2% only speak English at home with 1% speaking Afrikkaans and 0.5% speaking Polish.

Valentine is a suburb of Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Newcastle's central business district situated along the eastern shoreline of Lake Macquarie. It is a large residential district, with large-scale development commencing in the late 1980s. Valentine is home to number of convenience and specialty shops, including a butcher, post office, GP office, petrol station, newsagent and a bowling club. The Awabakal people were the first people of this area.Valentine was named after Mr Henry Valentine Joseph Geary, a property speculator and company director who grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, and settled in NSW after 1909, speculating in mining. He owned land in Valentine, but lived on the Hawkesbury River, and died there in 1933. Henry Halloran, a surveyor who surveyed the area in 1916, named the area after him. He was also responsible for surveying many of the suburbs in Sydney, including Seaforth.Coal was mined near Valentine by the Hartley Company in the mid-1800s. The name of "Hartley Point" at the Western end of Dilkera Avenue, facing Toronto, is a nod to the original coal mining venture from the 1800s which went bankrupt after the sinking of both of its coal ships at the lake's treacherous entrance in the 1860s. The first house was built by Mr Thomas Croudace in the 1860s adjacent to the park on Valentine Crescent, and some of the trees from that original house still stand within the eastern portion of the park. A dairy was located further up the creek to the south, and at one stage the creek was dammed for a swimming area. The first holiday cottage was built in the late 1920s but there being no usable road, no water, electricity or sewerage, development was slow. A ferry provided holiday makers with access from Speers Point and a small shop was open on weekends. Because the only access was by water, most of the houses were built on or near the foreshore adjacent to Dilkera Avenue (an aboriginal word meaning "by the shore"). The road from Warners Bay to Belmont came through in the late 1930s, and was tarred in 1956. A permanent shop was opened in 1945 and the first telephone service in 1946 with 20 subscribers. Town water and electricity came through in 1948. Children attended school in Belmont but by 1957 there were enough children to run a small school from the Progress Hall (built in 1954) whilst a new school opened in 1958. The streets mostly have aboriginal names, except for the area originally owned then subdivided by the Toll family (hence the old name "Toll's Estate") which are named after Albert Toll and his children and grandchildren – Christopher, Frederick, Victor, Peter and Andrew.

Bolton Point is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, and is located northeast of Toronto on a peninsula extending southwards into western Lake Macquarie.

Warners Bay is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, and is located 15 kilometres (9 mi) from Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It was named after Jonathan Warner, who settled the area. Warners Bay is the second-largest population centre in Lake Macquarie with over 7,000 residents (2016), and more than 615 businesses operating in the area.

Marmong Point is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia north-north-east of the town of Toronto on the western shore of Lake Macquarie. Marmong is an Aboriginal word meaning low water or swampy water.

Tingira Heights is a suburb of City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, 16 kilometres (10 mi) south-west of Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It was developed in the 1960s. The Awabakal are the traditional people of this area.Tingira is the name of an aboriginal tribe on the NSW / Qld border, which means "open sea". A ship of the same name was Australia's first naval training vessel in 1912 and was decommissioned in 1941. In 1965 the H.M.A.S Tingira Old Boys Association asked to have a town named after the ship, and the name was adopted by the Violet Town Progress Association. Tingara is an alternative spelling.

Woodrising is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, and is located northeast of the town of Toronto on the western shore Lake Macquarie.

Belmont Hospital is an acute care public hospital servicing the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1968, it is the only public hospital in the Local Government Area and is located on Croudace Bay Road in the suburb of Belmont. The hospital is operated by the Hunter New England Local Health District. The hospital underwent a major $31.5 million redevelopment between 2003 and 2007 allowing it to expand the range of specialist services available.

Warners Bay High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Warners Bay, a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in January 1966, the school caters for approximately 1,300 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom three percent identified as Indigenous Australians and seven percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Marcus Neale.

Speers Point is a suburb of Greater Newcastle, and the location of the council seat of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area in New South Wales, Australia. It is 17 kilometres (10.6 mi) west-southwest of the city of Newcastle on the northern shore of Lake Macquarie, in Cockle and Warners Bays, between the suburbs of Cardiff and Warners Bay.Speers Point was settled in 1828 and local commerce began through a colliery in 1843. By 2006, the suburb had a population of 3,230.There has been a proposal to rename part of the suburb to 'Lake Macquarie', to reflect the name of the city.

Lochend Colliery was a mine located at Speers Point, New South Wales, Australia. William Brooks began mining coal at the foot of the Munibung Hill near Speers Point in 1843. The coal was carried by trolleys on a small gauge tram line to a jetty at Speers Point. The coal could either be collected from the jetty or it could be transported to the head of Lake Macquarie, known as Reid's Mistake for collection. The mine ceased operations in 1847.

Floraville is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia 17 kilometres (11 mi) from Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie and north of the town of Belmont. It has a school, which opened in 1967 and houses approximately 550 students.