Eastwood, New South Wales

Eastwood
The old brick factory in Eastwood
State :  Australia State : New South Wales City : Sydney
Coordinates : 33 ° 47 ′  S , 151 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 47 ′  S , 151 ° 5 ′  E Area : 5.2  km²
Residents : 17,865 (2016) Population density : 3436 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 2122 LGA : City of Parramatta , City of Ryde
Eastwood

Eastwood Station

Eastwood is a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales , Australia . Eastwood is located approximately 17 kilometers northwest of Sydney city center. About 18,000 people live in the suburb. It developed into a multicultural center with a large community of Chinese and Koreans. Eastwood is also known for the Granny Smith apple variety being bred and first grown there.

Early settlement

The Wallumedegal, an Aboriginal tribe , used to live in the area between the Lane Cove River and the Parramatta River . This area was settled by the Europeans after reaching the First Fleet in 1788, especially by the Marines and the New South Wales Corps . The place was named after one of the first Irish settlers in Australia, William Rutledge Eastwood .

geography

Eastwood is at the end of the Hornsby Plateau with the suburbs of Dundas Valley and Denistone to the south. In the west, the area slopes down to the originally forested Cumberland Plain .

In 1886 Eastwood was connected to the railroad that runs through Strathfield to Hornsby .

Eastwood Center

The Eastwood Shopping Center is at the train station and the central square, Eastwood Plaza, has plenty of cafes with outside seating. Eastwood is home to many shops selling Asian items, as well as Asian restaurants and supermarkets.

Buildings and Life

Eastwood has numerous historic buildings from the early colonial period, such as the Brush Farm House , the oldest and best-preserved farmhouse in Australia, built by Gregory Blaxland , one of the discoverers of the route through the Blue Mountains and other buildings such as the Eastwood House . Eastwood has Darvall Park and Brush Farm Park with old and rare trees, as well as numerous churches and schools. The village hosts the Granny Smith Festival every year in October, attracting tens of thousands of people to the village.

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  Brush Farm House , which was built by Gregory Blaxland

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  Ripley , built in 1888

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  Heatherwold , a school building in Eastwood

Personalities

• Sydney James Butlin (* 1910 in Eastwood, † 1977 in Sydney), economist and historian
• Adrian Esposito (* 1985 in Eastwood), ice hockey player

Web links

Commons : Eastwood, New South Wales  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Eastwood Travelmate

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Eastwood (NSW) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
2. ↑ The Book of Sydney Suburbs , Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8 , page 92.
3. ↑ Stephen Maher: Goodbye to the Eastwood of old , Northern District Times, April 11, 2007, p. 14.
4. ↑ A Brief History of Ryde , 2007. ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 9, 2010.