Edensor Park is a
suburb
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of
Sydney
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,
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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. Edensor Park is located 38 kilometres west of the
Sydney central business district
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in the
local government area
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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 coun ...
. It is mainly a residential area, Edensor Park is part of the
Greater Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, and far western sub-regions within Sydney's metropoli ...
region.
History
John Brown Bossley (1810-1872) came to Australia around 1838 and practised as a chemist in Sydney. Bossley built an
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
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styled farmhouse on his land near Clear Paddock Creek. He called the property Edensor, after a village near
Chatsworth in
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
,
England
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. This established the name Edensor Park after Edensor House.
Edensor Park and its surrounding suburbs was a rural area until the 1970s, when it was developed into a residential settlement. Edensor Park belonged to the Prospect County Council, before its amalgamation into Fairfield City Council.
Commercial area
Edensor Park is a mainly residential suburb served by a local
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
, Edensor Park Plaza, which features a
Coles supermarket and a number of convenient stores and delis.
Schools
Edensor Park is served by two
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
s Edensor Park Public School and Governor Philip King Public School and three high schools outside the suburb.
Sport and recreation
Edensor Park has a number of recreation areas including Angle Vale Reserve, Allambie Reserve and Bosnjak Park. It is also home to the
Sydney United Sports Centre
Sydney United Sports Centre, formerly known as Sydney Croatia Sports Centre and King Tomislav Park is a multi-use stadium in Edensor Park, Sydney, Australia. It is mainly used for football and is the home ground for the Sydney United 58
...
, home of the Croatian backed
football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
team,
Sydney United
Sydney United 58 Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club and current NSW NPL Champions based in Edensor Park, Sydney, New South Wales Australia. The club was formed as Sydney Croatia in 1958, by Croatian Australians in the area, but it ...
, which was once a member of the now defunct
Australian National Soccer League (NSL)
The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its d ...
and currently plays in 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 Northern ...
.
Another local sporting team is the
CVD Edensor Park Cobras
The CVD Cobras (formerly Edensor Park Cobras) are a rugby league club located in Sydney's South Western suburbs. They play in the Parramatta District Junior Rugby League.
History
The formation of the Edensor Park Cobras Junior Rugby League Fo ...
Junior
Rugby league
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Football Club, who play in the Parramatta Junior Rugby League Association and use Bosnjak Park as their home ground. Edensor Park is also home to the Nineveh Club, the first
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...
n social club to be built in Australia. The club was constructed in the early 70s using ancient Assyrian features and is distinguished by two winged bulls at the entrance. Girl guides named after the above-mentioned area
Population
Edensor Park residents are culturally diverse, with ethnic backgrounds from the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
According to the 2021 Census 43.8% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
17.9%,
Vietnam
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7.8%,
Cambodia
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2.5%,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
2.4% and
Italy
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2.3%. The most common ancestries were
Assyrian
Assyrian may refer to:
* Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
* Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
** Early Assyrian Period
** Old Assyrian Period
** Middle Assyrian Empire
** Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Assyrian ...
12.8%, Italian 10.6%, Vietnamese 10.4%, Australian 9.2% and Chinese 8.4%. 28.1% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included
Neo-Aramaic
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18.7% (Assyrian 12.2% and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 6.5%), Vietnamese 10.3%, Arabic 8.5% and Croatian 3.6%.
The most common responses for religion were Catholic 45.1%, Buddhism 13.1%, No Religion 9.7%,
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East,, ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية sometimes called Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East,; ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية الرسول ...
7.0% and Not stated 5.1%. Christianity was the largest religious group at 70.9%.
References
External links
Fairfield City Council
{{Sydney Fairfield suburbs
Suburbs of Sydney
City of Fairfield