Maitland

Maitland, city, eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Hunter River valley. It is located on the New England Highway, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Newcastle. Founded as a settlement for convicts (1818–21), it was called in turn The Camp, Molly Morgan Plains, and Wallis Plains. A second town, surveyed in 1829 on higher ground on the east side of Wallis Creek and called Maitland, later became East Maitland. The older settlement continued...