Dundas is a suburb of
Sydney
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Australia
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. Dundas is located 21 kilometres north-west of the
Sydney central business district
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, in the
local government area
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of the
City of Parramatta
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, and the electoral division of
Bennelong
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. Dundas is a leafy green suburb, notably due to its centrepiece The Ponds Walk, which follows the
Ponds Subiaco Creek
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. Dundas is part of the
Northern Sydney
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and
Greater Western Sydney
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regions.
History
Dundas and surrounding areas were originally known as "The Ponds", a name still reflected in The Ponds Creek. The first private land grants in Sydney made in 1791 were in what is now North East Dundas and adjoining Dundas Valley and Ermington. This consisted of land grants to 14 former convicts and their families along the Ponds and Subiaco Creeks.
Reverend Samuel Marsden selected an area of 100 acres in the Field of Mars Parish, and named his farm "Dundas Farm" in honour of
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British Prime Minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18 ...
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who was also the Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
The area, nonetheless, was not known as Dundas until almost a century later.
The name Dundas came from one of the "hundreds" in which the County of Cumberland was divided into. The Hundred of Dundas was a county division that stretched from the Field of Mars Parish in the south to Berowra and surrounding parishes to the far north. The Field of Mars including the modern-day suburbs of Marsfield, Macquarie Park, Carlingford, Epping and Dundas.
When the Dundas Post Office on Kissing Point Road opened on 1 March 1861, it was called the Pennant Hills Post Office, but this changed to Field of Mars in 1867.
In 1890 it was finally called Dundas Post Office. In this interim period, the area was known as Pennant Hills within the Field of Mars, a name reflected in the notable Pennant Hills (Quarry), visited by Charles Darwin, that operated in the area for some time.
Heritage listings
Dundas has a number of heritage-listed sites, including (but not limited to):
* Station Street:
Dundas railway station
Population
According to the
2016 census
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Films
* ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film
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, there were 4,740 residents in Dundas. 48.3% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 12.0% and South Korea 6.5%. 46.4% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 13.2%, Korean 8.0%, Cantonese 7.4% and Arabic 2.6%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 27.4% and Catholic 25.0%. The majority of households were families (77.8%) and there were also single person households (18.6%).
Transport
Dundas railway station was on the closed
Carlingford line
The Carlingford railway line was a railway line in Sydney, Australia. It was opened from Clyde to Subiaco (later renamed Camellia) in January 1885, then by means of the construction of a bridge across the Parramatta River, to Carlingford in A ...
of the
Sydney Trains
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network. The heritage listed station is located on Station Street, connects to Kissing Point Road by footpath. The conversion of the Camellia to Carlingford section of the Carlingford railway line to light rail was announced in 2015 as part of the
Parramatta Light Rail
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project and the station closed 5 January 2020. The station area is now served by temporary bus route 535 between
Carlingford and
Parramatta
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.
Busways
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routes that pass through Dundas include the 545 a Parramatta to Chatswood service via Kissing Point Road and the 521, a Parramatta to Eastwood service via Park Road.
Schools
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St Patrick's Marist College Dundas, located on Kirby Street, is a Catholic secondary school and plays host to the Shamrocks Dundas JRLFC Football Club.
* Dundas Public School is located between Kissing Point Road and Calder Road.
Churches
*
Dundas Ermington Uniting Church is located on the corner of Kissing Point Road and Park Road in Dundas.
* The
Church of Scientology
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's Sydney
Rehabilitation Project Force
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is located in Dundas.
References
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Suburbs of Sydney
City of Parramatta