Aberdeen is a small town in the upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, in Upper Hunter Shire. It is 12 kilometres north of Muswellbrook on the New England Highway. In 1828 Thomas Potter McQueen was granted 10,000 acres, and named the small township after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. In 1837 Segenhoe Inn was built, which Potter McQueen named after Segenhoe Manor, in Bedfordshire, where he was born in 1791. Aberdeen Post Office opened on 1 August 1856.
Population: 1,872 (2021 census)
Postcode(s): 2336
Location: 242 km (150 mi) N of Sydney · 139 km (86 mi) NW of Newcastle · 12 km (7 mi) N of Muswellbrook
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