Ingleside is a

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, Australia. Ingleside is located 28 kilometres north of the

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. Ingleside Heights and Tumbledown Dick are localities in the west of the suburb. The area is mostly semi-rural properties and bushland with increasing housing developments.

History

The suburb takes its name from a mansion in the area called Ingleside House, built in the 1880s by Baron von Bieren, an industrial chemist of Dutch and American background. He specialised in gunpowder and explosives, founding a factory called the Australian Gunpowder and Explosives Manufacturing Company. Powder Works Road takes its name from this factory.''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia , page 132

Population

In the 2021 Census, there were 1,030 people in Ingleside. 72.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 4.6%, Italy 2.5%, and New Zealand 2.2%. 77.1% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 3.0% and Serbian 2.2%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 34.8%, Catholic 25.8%, and Anglican 11.7%.

Landmarks

* The

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, the world's fourth

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, was completed in 1961. * The

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Ranch was the home of one of Australia's most popular country music singers. The former ranch was sold to the HASG Armenian School. In 2002 the school opened a commemorative Smoky Dawson ranch-style gate, which has become a tourist attraction. * DoggieRescue.com, an animal rescue and re-homing shelter started by Monika Biernacki.

Schools

* Hamazkaine A&S Galstaun College (Armenian Private College)

References

External links

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