Scone

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Scone is a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known as the "Horse Capital of Australia" for its prominent thoroughbred breeding industry.

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Label Occurrences
Scone canonical 9
New Scone 2

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf locality
town
climate humid subtropical climate
country Australia
distanceFromNewcastle approximately 150 kilometres northwest
distanceFromSydney approximately 270 kilometres north
electoralDistrictState Upper Hunter Shire
surface form: Upper Hunter
electoralDivisionFederal New England region
surface form: New England
foundedAsTown 19th century
hasAirport Scone Airport
hasCatholicSchool St Mary’s Primary School Scone
hasHeritageBuilding Scone Post Office
Scone Railway Station
St Luke’s Anglican Church Scone
hasHighSchool Scone High School
hasHospital Scone Hospital
hasIndustry agriculture
beef cattle farming
crop production
dairy farming
hasLibrary Scone Library
hasMuseum Scone Museum
hasPrimarySchool Scone Public School
hasRacecourse Scone Race Club
hasRailService Main North railway line
hasRiver Pages River
hostsEvent Scone Cup Racing Carnival
Hay Races
surface form: Scone Horse Festival
knownFor equine industry
thoroughbred horse breeding
localGovernmentArea Upper Hunter Shire
locatedIn Hunter Valley
locatedOn New England Highway
namedAfter Scone, Perthshire, Scotland
surface form: Scone, Scotland
nearbyMountainRange Liverpool Range
nearbyNationalPark Barrington Tops
surface form: Barrington Tops National Park
nickname Horse Capital of Australia
postcode 2337
primaryEconomicRole regional service centre for Upper Hunter
region Upper Hunter Shire
surface form: Upper Hunter Region
state New South Wales
traditionalOwners Wonnarua people

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Scone replacedBy Scone
this entity surface form: New Scone
Scone nearbySettlement Scone
this entity surface form: New Scone
Murrurundi nearbyTown Scone
Brumlow Top nearbyTown Scone
Hunter line terminus Scone
Hunter line connectsTown Scone