Bonnyrigg is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of

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, Australia 36 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the

City of Fairfield The Fairfield City Council is a local government area in the west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The council was first incorporated as the "Municipal District of Smithfield and Fairfield" on 8 December 1888, and the cou ...

. It is part of the

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region.

History

Bonnyrigg takes its name from Bonnyrigg,

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. In 1803, Governor King Arthur Philip granted land for the building of an orphanage. A two-storey Georgian house was erected in Brown Road and became the Male Orphan Schoolchildren's Residence. It was extended around 1914 and is now listed on the Register of the National Estate.The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p.2/24

Heritage listings

Bonnyrigg has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Cartwright Street: Bonnyrigg House * Lot 1 Cartwright Street:

Male Orphan School land The Male Orphan School land is a heritage-listed former vineyard and orchard and now vacant land at Lot 1 Cartwright Street, Bonnyrigg, City of Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia. It was built during 1803 by James Busby. It is also known as ...

Location

Bonnyrigg lies approximately 30 kilometres west of Sydney's

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as the crow flies and about 36 kilometres by road. Its closest major regional centre is

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. The suburb is shaped like a diamond. The suburbs of

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and

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lie to the east on the other side of ''Green Valley Creek''. St Johns Park, Greenfield Park and Edensor Park lie to the north.

Bonnyrigg Heights Bonnyrigg Heights is a suburb of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Its name originates from Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland. Bonnyrigg Heights is located on the traditional indigenous lands of the Dharug Nation. Geography The elevation ...

, Hinchinbrook and Green Valley are to the west. Busby and Heckenberg lie to the south. Currently the town centre is undergoing a major regeneration through a new housing scheme - Newleaf Bonnyrigg. This will replace over 800 dwellings with 2,330 new homes that will see the town's population increase by over 3,000 people over 12 years to 2022. The project is being delivered through a Public Private Partnership with Housing New South Wales called Newleaf.

Commercial area

Bonnyrigg's commercial area consists of a main hub around Bonnyrigg Plaza, a shopping centre located on Bonnyrigg Avenue. Bonnyrigg Plaza has undergone major renovation allowing new stores and a fresh new food court to come in. This commercial area also has several community facilities such as a PCYC, an office of the Housing NSW department and a public library. A

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hardware store is located opposite to the plaza and the local primary school is adjacent to Bonnyrigg Plaza. Brown Road in Bonnyrigg is also a commercial area, albeit smaller. It contains several mixed business Asian stores, a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant and take away, newsagency and Liberty petrol station.

Transport

The closest train station is

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, on the

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and

Bankstown Line The Bankstown Line (numbered T3, coloured orange) is a commuter rail line operated by Sydney Trains in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It serves Canterbury-Bankstown and parts of the Inner West and Western Sydney. The Bankstown rail ...

. There are bus links to Cabramatta Station and other nearby stations. Bonnyrigg is served by several bus routes operated by

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. The Liverpool to Parramatta T-way transitway service, the T80, operates via Bonnyrigg, stopping near Bonnyrigg Plaza.

Demographics

According to the 2016 census of population, there were 8,670 residents in Bonnyrigg. 21.9% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Vietnamese 29.4%, Khmer 6.2%, Arabic 5.1%, Cantonese 4.7% and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 4.3%. The most common ancestries in Bonnyrigg were Vietnamese 25.0%, Chinese 13.1%, Australian 7.1%, Khmer (Cambodian) 6.3% and English 6.0%. 41.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Vietnam 19.9%, Cambodia 5.4%, Iraq 5.2%, Laos 2.6% and China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 1.8%. The most common responses for religion were

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30.6%, Catholic 24.2%, No Religion 13.5%, Not stated 8.1% and

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canoni ...

4.3%.

Education

*Bonnyrigg High School *Bonnyrigg Public School *Our Lady of Mt Carmel Parish School *Bonnyrigg Heights Public School

Sport

Soccer

Bonnyrigg is home to the

New South Wales Premier League The National Premier Leagues NSW is a semi-professional soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. The competition is conducted by Football NSW, the organising body in New South Wales (the other being the National Premier Leagues Norther ...

soccer club Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club. Bonnyrigg is also home to the Nineveh Soccer Stadium, home of the Fairfield Bulls football club.

References

Fairfield City Council
- The local council website profile for Bonnyrigg.

External links

New Leaf Bonnyrigg
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