Dural is a semi rural suburb of Sydney, in the state of

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, Australia 36 kilometres north-west of the

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in the

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Hornsby Shire Hornsby Shire is a local government area situated on the Upper North Shore as well as parts of the Hills District, of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The shire stretches from the M2 Hills Motorway in the south to the Hawkesb ...

and

The Hills Shire The Hills Shire (known until 2008 as Baulkham Hills Shire) is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Greater Western Sydney, Greater Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The area is north-west of the Sydney ...

. Dural is part of the Hills District. Round Corner is a locality in the south-western part of Dural.

History

The original inhabitants of the Dural area were the

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. Dural is derived from Dooral-Dooral, an Aboriginal name meaning ''a smoking hollow tree''. The name ''Dooral'' appeared on Surveyor Richard Dundiate's map of April 1817 and originally covered the whole area including present day Glenorie, Galston, Arcadia and

Middle Dural Middle Dural is a semi-rural suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of Hornsby Shire and The Hills Shire. Dural is a separate suburb to the ...

. Located on the

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, a historic road built by convicts between 1825 and 1836 to link early Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, with the fertile Hunter Valley to the north. The first grant in the area was made to George Hall in 1879. At an earlier stage, a local settler, James Roughley, had donated land to be used for the building of a church. A sandstone chapel was built on Old Northern Road circa 1846, with a vestry, apse and shingle roof, plus a bell turret on the western gable. A porch was added soon after. The chapel—known as St Jude's Church—is now listed on the Register of the National Estate. Dural Post Office opened on 1 August 1864.

Population

According to the 2021 census, there were 7,900 residents in Dural. 64.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 4.1%, England 4.0%, India 3.0%, South Africa 2.0% and Malaysia 1.6%. 69.1% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 3.4%, Cantonese 2.6%, Persian (excluding Dari) 1.4% and Italian 1.4%. The most common responses for religion in Dural were Catholic 28.1%, No Religion 25.9%, Anglican 14.9%, and Buddhism 3.8%. The median weekly household income was $2,489 was a fair bit higher than the national median of $1,746 per month. 80.3% of occupied dwellings were separate houses and 64.5% of houses had 4 or more bedrooms. There was a high level of home ownership in Dural, with 81.0% of people either owning their house outright or owning with a mortgage.

Schools

Lorien Novalis School Lorien Novalis School for Rudolf Steiner Education is a private, Steiner school located in , a suburb in The Hills Shire, in northwestern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1971, the school teaches students from early learning, ...

* Dural Public School * Redfield College * Pacific Hills Christian School *

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*Middle Dural Public School

Sport and recreation

Dural plays host to the Dural Rugby Club, Dural Country Club, Dural Country Club soccer teams, Redfield Lions Soccer and Rugby Clubs and the Pacific Hills Pumas Soccer Club. Dural Rugby Club organises Wallatag in the Summer Months which is held on a Friday night at Bernie Mullane Sports Complex in Kellyville.
Northwest Hawks Junior Rugby League Football Club
has its home ground at Dural Park, Quarry Road Dural

Transport

Dural has no railway station but is connected to Castle Hill metro station and

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via bus services operated by

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. A CDC NSW depot is located on New Line Road next to

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Media

Between 1985 and 1987, Dural was the site for tapings of the television game show ''

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'' shown nationally on the

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and hosted by Billy J Smith and Fiona MacDonald. However, due to numerous complaints from local residents the show was cancelled in 1987. Dural was also the setting for the home of the wealthy Hamilton family, at 631 Old Northern Road, in the soap opera Sons And Daughters during its 1981–1987 run. Le Chateau, a landmark manor house in Dural was host to the set of

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, a similar theme of television show to The Bachelor. The Le Chateau is now owned by Harach Lucas, founder and CEO of MicroChannel.

Communications

Quarry Road is home to th
Amateur Radio New South Wales
clubrooms, library, and broadcasting site.

References

External links

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