Bord & Pillar · Areas
Garage door service areas around Kurri Kurri
The round, drawn as a plan.
Kurri Kurri and the localities around it, laid out the way the pits that built them were: pillars on a grid. Not a map, a workings plan. The distances and address counts are real; the geometry is ours.
Each pillar is a locality on the round; the brass pillar is home. Distances are road-realistic figures from the national address database, not straight lines. Tap a pillar for the doors of that patch.
Three patches, three kinds of doors
Pick your patch
Weston & the pit villages
Weston, Abermain, Pelaw Main, Stanford Merthyr, Sawyers Gully. The old grid: original tilt and roller doors, decades in service, mostly worth keeping.
The doors of the old gridHeddon Greta & the growth ring
Heddon Greta, Cliftleigh, Loxford. New estates, new sectionals, openers that carry the school run. The 6 am door.
The doors of the growth ringCessnock
The LGA's big town, twenty minutes down the road. Same mining bones, same door stock, same straight call.
The second town on the roundThe register
Every locality, read straight
| Locality | From Kurri | Addresses | The read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurri Kurri | home | 3,630 | The 1902 grid itself. Originals in the old streets, sectionals at the edges, sheds everywhere. |
| Pelaw Main | 1.5 km | 558 | Pit village on the south side, nearly all houses. Old doors, deep blocks. |
| Stanford Merthyr | 1.6 km | 268 | Tiny, adjoining, named for the colliery. A handful of streets, a lot of original doors. |
| Weston | 2.2 km | 1,922 | A house town through and through. The biggest of the villages and the heart of the old-door work. |
| Loxford | 2.2 km | 57 | Fifty-seven addresses, every one of them a house. Big blocks, big sheds. |
| Heddon Greta | 3.3 km | 1,815 | The growth ring's anchor. New sectionals, openers, first services coming due. |
| Sawyers Gully | 4.8 km | 248 | Semi-rural fringe. Wide shed doors, floats and boats behind them. |
| Abermain | Cessnock road | 1,308 | The village between the two towns. Established streets, established doors. |
| Cliftleigh | growth corridor | 1,227 | The new estate pocket toward Beresfield. New builds still getting their first doors. |
| Cessnock | 16 km · 20 min | 9,213 | The LGA's town. A real drive and an honest one; on the round all the same. |
Somewhere between the pillars, or just past one? Ask anyway. Edges on a plan are lines; on a round they're judgement.