Description
Claremont is a rural / residential locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Glenorchy (75%) and Derwent Valley (25%) in the Hobart and South-east LGA regions of Tasmania.
Claremont is a rural / residential locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Glenorchy (75%) and Derwent Valley (25%) in the Hobart and South-east LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of the town of Glenorchy. The 2016 census provides a population of 7750 for the state suburb of Claremont.
History
Claremont was gazetted as a locality in 1960.
It is named after Claremont House, which was built in the 1830s by local settler Henry Bilton, who named it after one of the royal homes of England. Claremont was the home of an Army training facility during World War I, but this was moved to Brighton some time before World War II. At that time Claremont consisted of only a few houses and farms. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, public housing was built in the suburb (as happened in the rest of the City of Glenorchy).
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Population: 1001-10000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 17.924 km2
Elevation: 11-50 metres
Town elevation: 14 m
Population number: 7,750
Local Government Area: Glenorchy City Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Claremont, Tasmania