Como West is a locality in
southern Sydney, in the state of
New South Wales
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Australia. It is located in the western part of the suburb of
Como
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Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps h ...
. The postcode is 2226, the same as Como.
Como West is located on the north eastern bank of the
Woronora River
The Woronora River is a perennial river of the Sydney Basin, located in the Sutherland Shire local government area of Greater Metropolitan Sydney, approximately south of the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia.
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. It features its own primary school –
Como West Public School and sports fields. There is a small shopping area with a motor repair shop, wine cellar, a Chinese restaurant, a veterinarian, doctor, chemist, cafe, butcher, hairdresser and a corner shop.
Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial perio ...
Park celebrates the name of that great Australian poet.
History
In early 1884, James Frederick Murphy (Manager of the Holt-Sutherland Company Estate) is attributed as being responsible for the renaming of the postal locality previously known as "Woronora" – to "COMO".
Thirty years later on 19 June 1914, the elevated portion of "Como" lying west of the Illawarra Railway line & extending west to the Woronora River is first referred to as "Como Heights" in a local tourism advertisement published in numerous papers around New South Wales.
Six years later on 10 September 1920, the term "Como Heights Estate" appears in a Land Sale advertisement in The Propellor, Hurstville
A further six years elapsed, then on 5 June 1926, an article referring to the "West Como Progress Association" is published by the Evening News, Sydney, newspaper.
Thirteen more years elapse, then finally on 9 November 1939 the term "Como West" first appears publicly, via an advertisement by the proprietor of the Como West Post Office which is published in The Propellor, Hurstville.
[The Propellor, Hurstville, 9 November 1939, page 5.]
Many houses and the historic Como West Public School were burnt down during the devastating
notable 1994 bushfires.
References
Sydney localities
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