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Burwood Sydney, New South Wales
NASA image of Sydney's CBD and surrounds, with borders of Burwood shown in orange.
Population:	11,130
Established:	1814
Postcode:	2134
Property Value:	AUD [1] 700,000
Location:	11 km from Sydney CBD
LGA:	Burwood Council
State District:	Strathfield
Federal Division:	Lowe
Suburbs around Burwood Concord Canada Bay Five Dock Strathfield Burwood Croydon South Strathfield Burwood Heights Croydon Park

Burwood is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 12 kms west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Burwood Council. The postcode is 2134.

Burwood Heights is a separate suburb to the south. The Appian Way is a street in Burwood, famous for its architecturally designed Federation-style homes.

Contents 1 Commercial Area 2 History 3 Residents 3.1 Notable residents 4 Transport 5 References 6 External links

Burwood has a mixture of residential, commercial and light industrial developments. The main shopping strip runs along Burwood Road, close to Burwood railway station. The Westfield Burwood Shoppingtown is a large regional shopping centre, north of the railway line, on Burwood Road opposite Burwood Park. Burwood Plaza is a smaller shopping centre on Railway Parade, south of the railway line.

High rise residential and commercial buildings are also found in surrounding streets and along the railway line. Commercial and light industrial developments are located along Parramatta Road.

Archaeological evidence indicates people were living in the Sydney area for at least 11,000 years. This long association had led to a harmonious relationship between the indigenous inhabitants and their environment which was rudely interrupted by the arrival of the British in 1788. The European desire to cultivate the land aided and abetted by a [smallpox]] epidemic forced the local people, the Wangal clan, away from their source of food and their spiritual connection with the land.[2]

Captain Thomas Rowley (1748-1806) received a grant of 260 acres in 1799. He called his property Burwood Farm after Burwood Park, England. Following more Land grants, his estate increased to 750 acres stretching from Parramatta Road to Nicholson Street and The Boulevarde to Croydon railway station. He ran merino sheep on the property.

The first house, Burwood Villa was built in the area in 1814 the same year a stagecoach began running between Sydney and Parramatta. Burwood became a staging post along the road and the beginnings of a settlement started to develop. Subdivisions in the 1830s propelled the growth of a village and by 1855 when the railway line came through, Burwood was one of the first six stops on the line between Sydney and Parramatta. This led to a huge growth in population and in 1874, the area became a municipality.

In 2001, there were over 11,000 people in Burwood on census night and the vast majority were born overseas. Only 37% were born in Australia with the other major countries of birth being mainland China (12.5%), South Korea (6.5%), Italy (3.1%), Hong Kong (2.8%) and Vietnam (2.4%). The area had a high number of apartments (49%) and a high number of people renting (42%). The area had a higher unemployment rate (8.6%) than the national average at the time (7.4%) with the most common industries of employment being business services (7.4%), health (4.1%) and hospitality (3.8%).[3]

Three former Australian prime ministers have lived in Burwood:

• George Reid
• Earle Page
• William McMahon

Other notable residents include:

• novelist Eleanor Dark was born in Burwood although moved away at a young age
• Clare Dennis, gold medallist in the 200m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics was born in the suburb.
• Doug Sutherland, former lord mayor of Sydney
• Angus and Malcolm Young from AC/DC grew up in Burwood.

Burwood railway station is on the Inner West line, Northern line and Western Line of the CityRail network.

Sydney Buses provide many bus services to Burwood, from Hurstville, Rockdale, Bondi Junction, Strathfield, Homebush, Campsie, Ryde as well as many other locations across Sydney. Sydney Buses has two terminuses, Burwood station and Westfield Burwood.

Sydney Buses Burwood Bus Depot is located on the corner of Shaftesbury and Parramatta Roads.

• The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

• 2001 Census Information

Coordinates: -33.8772° 151.1049°

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
  • Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.

Suburbs and localities within Burwood Council | Inner West | Sydney
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