Newington (New South Wales)

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Newington
Newington Marketplace.JPG
Marketplace
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of New South Wales.svg New South Wales
City : Sydney
Coordinates : 33 ° 50 ′  S , 151 ° 3 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 50 ′  S , 151 ° 3 ′  E
Area : 0.93  km²
Residents : 5,802 (2016) Australian Bureau of Statistics : Newington (NSW) (State Suburb) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
Population density : 6239 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2127
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Newington (Sydney)
Newington
Newington

Newington is a district of Parramatta City , which is located in the local administrative area Parramatta City of the metropolis of Sydney in the Australian state of New South Wales .

history

In 1807, John Blaxland acquired 520 acres of land, reserving the original grants from Waterhouse, Shortland, Archer and Haslam and naming the Newington Estate after his family's Newington Estate in Kent , England (England). Blaxland established a series of salt pans on the banks of the Parramatta River. Up until 1827, eight tons of salt were produced there per week for the market in Sydney, and Blaxland also set up a tweed factory, a lime factory and a mill. Newington House was completed in 1832 and St Augustins Chapel in 1838.

In 1843, Blaxland had mortgaged the property to the Australian Trust Company. After his death, the Trust Company sold the property to John Dobie in 1851 to reclaim the mortgage. The Blaxland family bought it back from Dobie in 1854 but offered it as collateral for a large loan. The loan was transferred to the official handling Edward James Blaxland's bankruptcy proceedings in 1860 and then leased to Methodist Church , which established Newington College on the site. The property, which stretched from near what is now Holker Street to what is now Carnarvon Street, was sold to John Wetherill in 1877.

Research into coal mining was undertaken by John Blaxland in 1841. He dug several six-meter-deep pits that the Australian Mining Company was interested in. The two parties reached an agreement and undertook several unsuccessful explorations. In 1878 the City of Sydney Coal Company acquired the coal mining rights on the property. The company drilled to a depth of 457 meters to no avail. The Australian Timber Company was founded in 1855 to exploit the timber stocks in Newington and the surrounding area. In the late 1870s and 1880s, Sydney's suburbs expanded rapidly and it was hoped that creating a housing development between the major centers of Sydney and Parramatta would be a worthwhile proposition, but this turned out to be inaccurate.

In 1878 John Wetherill registered a plan to subdivide the entire Newington Estate of 520 acres, which included an extensive checkerboard division of 114 lots that stretched far into the marshland and mangrove forests of Wentworth Bay and Homebush Bay. In 1906 and 1909, Wetherill further divided his property in Riverside Heights with the first allotments sold that year. It was hoped that the location, in close proximity to the developing Abattoirs and Brickworks combined with corporate employment opportunities, would attract people. This project was largely unsuccessful with a few properties sold. However, the layout of this division in the western part of Newington is evident in the current street pattern and street names.

The district gained fame because it functioned as an Olympic village during the 2000 Olympic Games . Even today the district is strongly influenced by its Olympic past. Streets and parks are named after athletes, countries or continents. All houses also have the same architecture and the same floor plan. In 2000 Newington was the largest place with energy supply from solar panels on houses.

Image gallery

  • Monument to the Olympic Village

  • former Olympic Village

  • Newington

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Book of Sydney Suburbs , edited by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, published in Australia, ISBN 0-207-14495-8
  2. ↑ Sydney Olympic Park Authority - Five Layers of History http://www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au/education_and_learning/history ( Memento of May 8, 2006)
  3. ↑ Sydney's Newington Olympic village 12 years after the closing ceremony , propertyobserver.com.au, August 8, 2012
  4. ↑ Olympic villages past & present , realestate.com.au, August 3, 2016