Summer Hill is a

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, in the state of

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, Australia. Summer Hill is located 7 kilometres west of the

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, in the

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of the

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. Summer Hill is a primarily residential

of Sydney's

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, adjoining two of Sydney's major arterial roads,

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and

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. The first land grant was made in 1794 to former convict and jailor

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, and the suburb began growing following the opening of the railway station on the

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, in 1879. By the 1920s, the suburb had become relatively

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, with large estates and mansions built throughout the suburb. Some of these still exist today. Following a transition to a

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suburb in the mid-20th century, when many of the large estates were demolished or subdivided, the suburb today has a "village" character and a mix of medium-density apartment blocks and federation houses.

Characteristics

Summer Hill's boundaries are Parramatta Road and Liverpool Road to the north, the rear of the properties on the west side of Prospect Road (with a detour around Trinity Grammar School) to the West, Old Canterbury Road to the south, and the Inner West Light Rail to the east. North of Summer Hill is the suburb of Haberfield, to the east is

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, to the south is Dulwich Hill, and to the west is Ashfield."Summer Hill boundary map"

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. Retrieved 18 September 2007. Summer Hill has a mix of Federation-era houses, with medium density apartment blocks near the railway station. Local

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people run most of the shops. The local council has defined a village character for the suburb. Summer Hill is a suburb rich in heritage. More than one hundred properties are heritage listed, and the strong feelings of some residents of the suburb towards protecting the local architecture has seen the introduction of a heritage review, which is expected to add more properties to the heritage register."Summer Hill Precinct Heritage review"
Ashfield Municipal Council. Retrieved 7 July 2007. Despite formerly being working class, Summer Hill and many of the surrounding suburbs have gradually undergone

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over recent years. Culturally, Summer Hill is a blend of medium-density European Sydney suburbia, with Italian influences (which are most evident in Leichhardt to the east and Haberfield to the north), Asian (mainly Chinese) influences (which are most strongly evident in Ashfield to the West), and smaller influences from many other cultures.Pratten, Chris, ''Summer Hill''. Ashfield & District Historical Society: Australia, 1999. .

History

Aboriginal Anthropology

Before the

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arrived at

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in 1788, what is now known as Summer Hill was part of a larger area where people of the

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and

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nations lived. There is research to show in the greater Sydney region 8000 - 10000 Aboriginal people were resident, fluctuating on seasons and during tribal conflicts."A Short Walk Through Ashfield's past" booklet, a collaboration between Ashfield Municipal Council and the Ashfield & District Historical Society, circa 1996. What is now called the

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(originally Long Cove Creek) appears to have been the boundary between the Cadigal and Wangal Aboriginal nations. Today there is a small park in Summer Hill, called Cadigal Reserve, located at 1-4 Grosvenor Crescent. A bronze plaque placed by Ashfield Council names the reserve after the Cadigal (Eora) group of Koori people."Ashfield Heritage Study Review - Cadigal Reserve"
Ashfield Municipal Council. Retrieved 18 September 2007. Iron Cove and the mangrove-lined estuaries of the Long Cove and Iron Cove Creeks would have provided a good source of fish and molluscs, the most common food of the coastal tribes in the

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. In the early days of the colony, the land between

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and the

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was known as the Kangaroo Ground. This suggests that the land was open terrain favoured by kangaroos, that they were common in the area and may have formed a significant part of the Aboriginal diet.

European settlement

The first land grant in this area was for a farm in 1794, to former convict and jailor

. The land in the eastern corner of Summer Hill was an additional grant of made to Henry Kable in 1804. This eastern corner would subsequently become part of the estate of James Underwood. Underwood died in 1844 and left a will so complicated that it required special legislation before it could be subdivided. An early known use of the name "Summer Hill" was on Saturday 8 December 1849 when The Bathurst Free Press reported it as the residence of James and Ann Bennett who were tried and convicted of participation in the Wellington Mail Robbery. However, the location reported most likely refers to the place now known as Summer Hill Creek, near Orange, New South Wales. The name was used in 1876, for a land subdivision adjacent to the present-day St Andrew's Anglican Church. The name Summer Hill is thought to be a name chosen by the land sub-divider, presumably based on an attachment for England. Local historians regard the suggestion that the name is a derivation of "Sunning Hill" as a dubious story which has no substance. Summer Hill's largest mansion, ''Carleton'' (now the Grosvenor Hospital's main building), was built in the early 1880s on Liverpool Road for Charles Carleton Skarrat. The suburb boomed with the opening of the

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in 1879, and was followed by subdivision of much of the surrounding area. Between 1880 and 1910, the area became an

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suburb, and was a popular choice for professionals in banking and insurance who worked in the city. Subdivision of gardens for housing continued in the 1920s and 1930s, and socioeconomically the suburb changed as some of the wealthier inhabitants moved to the North Shore. Demolition of most of the surviving mansions in the 1970s allowed erection of home units, especially within walking distance of the railway station.

Heritage listings

Summer Hill has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Grosvenor Crescent:

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Climate

The nearest site to Summer Hill is the Canterbury Racecourse AWS which is located several km to the south west of Summer Hill town centre.

Churches and other places of worship

There are a number of

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in Summer Hill. St Patrick's

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was built in 1874, and is the oldest known building in the suburb. There is also a small

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associated with the church and located next to it. The building was originally a private home known as ''Kelvin Grove'', and owned by Mrs Jane Drynan. Much of the exterior of the church is original but none of the internal walls were retained when the building was converted into a church. Following Drynan's death, Kelvin Grove was owned or leased by a succession of different people, including the Haberfield real-estate developer Richard Stanton, Croydon brick-maker William Downton, and two sisters named Freeman (one of whom was a nurse). In the 1920s and 1930s Kelvin Grove may have been used as a nursing home. The first

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was celebrated in Kelvin Grove on

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1946, giving the church its name. St Andrew's Anglican Church has three distinctive internal

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arches, and was designed by a Presbyterian, Alexander Leckie Elphinstone Junior. The foundation stone was laid in 1883, and the top of the spire completed in 1906. The fast construction period, unusual for that time, was indicative of the area's affluence. Recent Asian influences in Summer Hill have brought about the introduction of non-Christian places of worship. The Wong Tai Sin (or Kwan Yin Kur) temple is located on the corners of Kensington Road and Liverpool Road in a building that was a Masonic temple in the 1920s. The same building was converted into the current temple; the lower floor houses the

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deity of

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, and the upper floor houses the

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of Kwan Yin.

Schools

Trinity Grammar School in Prospect Road is a

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catering for boys from Pre-K to Year 12. The schools's site has been in continuous use for education for 120 years. The headmaster's house at Trinity was erected circa 1877. The site operated as several different teaching institutions until it was purchased by the

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, becoming known as Trinity Grammar School in 1925. Trinity Grammar is one of many wealthy schools in New South Wales, and has previously received some of the largest government subsidies, when comparing total government subsidies per school. An expansion plan by Trinity involving the demolition of houses in nearby Seaview Street caused controversy in 2007. The development was nonetheless approved by the New South Wales Land and Environment Court.

Summer Hill Public School, located in Moonbie Street, is a primary school that caters for students from Kindergarten to Year 6. It offers a selective program, known as Opportunity Classes, for Year 5 and 6 students under the New South Wales Government's Opportunity Class program. The school was established in 1883 in a wooden shed on of land that had been resumed from James Bartlett. The older buildings currently used at the school date back to 1913 while more modern buildings were constructed in 1977, 1998 and 2010. The school, designed in the Victorian Classical style, is listed on the Register of the National Estate. Saint Patrick's Catholic School is a private primary school, close to Summer Hill Public School.

Commercial area

Summer Hill's shopping precinct is centred around a small

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with good pedestrian access, and is surrounded by cafés and restaurants along Lackey and Smith Streets. The suburb is very small by Australian standards, having a population of just over 6000, in an area of 110 hectares. It features some fine examples of architecture from the 19th and early 20th century. The Summer Hill

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was built circa 1922, utilising the north–south goods railway line that was constructed during

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. The silos were added from the 1950s onwards. The flour mill has been owned by various companies, including Mungo Scott, Allied Flour & Starch and

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, and then Allied Mills. In October 2007, the mills were sold to a developer, EG Funds Management,Munro, Catherine
"Light rail left idling on the track"
, ''

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'', 15 October 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2007. who have since redeveloped the mill site into a residential and commercial precinct. The precinct is a site for a regular community market for produce and artisan goods.

Transport

In Summer Hill on the day of the 2016 Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people were: Train 36.0%, Car, as driver 32.9%, Walked only 4.0%, Worked at home 3.8% and Train and bus 3.5%. Summer Hill is close to the main thoroughfares of

and Parramatta Road; although they are quite congested at peak times. From 1915, Summer Hill was served by trams from Hurlstone Park. Trams left New Canterbury Road and went down Prospect Road, then swung right onto Smith Street. They turned onto Lackey Street, where they went right and terminated at the station. Low usage and rival buses saw the line closed in 1933, however some remains can be seen. Summer Hill railway station is located on the

. The railway station was opened on 15 September 1879, and most of the local shops are clustered close to the station. There are two stations serving Summer Hill on the

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. These are - Lewisham West (adjacent to the former flour mill on the border with Lewisham) and Taverners Hill (near Parramatta Road). Access to the city is quicker by train, but the light rail may be used for some cross-regional journeys. It also interchanges with

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on the

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. There are four

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routes that service the area - the 480 and 483 follow routes along Parramatta Road and then Liverpool Road, the 461 travels along Parramatta Road and the 413 travels along Junction Road. Additionally, the N70, N71 and N80 NightRide buses on Parramatta Road run between Central and Penrith, Richmond and Hornsby respectively. The area is also gradually becoming more bicycle friendly, with several bicycle paths in the suburb. A local group, "Friends of the Greenway" wish to see a bicycle and walking corridor built alongside the light rail.

Population

Demographics

In the , the population of the Summer Hill was 7,288, in an area of 1.1 square kilometres. The population was 52.8% females, 47.2% males. 64.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were

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(3.7%),

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(3.5%),

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(1.9%),

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(1.6%) and

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(1.5%). 69.8% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 4.8%, Cantonese 1.9%, Korean 1.7%, Spanish 1.6% and Greek 1.5%. The most common responses for religion were No religion (52.8%),

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(18.6%),

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(5.7%), Not stated (5.3%) and

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(2.8%). The majority of dwelling were flats, units or apartments (63.1%) followed by separate houses (19.6%) and

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, terrace houses, or townhouses (17.0%).

Notable residents

Notable people to have been born or lived in Summer Hill include: * Normand Henry Baker (1908–1955),

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winning artist. * Robert Barbour, (1827–1895), politician. * Dr John Belisario (1820–1900), dentist at the later end of the 19th century, recorded as living in Summer Hill in the 1891 census; first dentist in Australia to administer ether to a patient to carry out dental work. * Colonel

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Kathleen Best (1910–1957), first director of the Women's Australian Army Corps. * David Elphinstone (1847–1916), architect and builder. * Virginia Gay, '' All Saints'' actress and contestant on '' It Takes Two'' *

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(1917–1998), radio host, television host, and producer. * Justice Greg James (born 1944), former judge of the Supreme Court of NSW. * Edwin Johnson (1835–1894), education reformer, undersecretary to the Department of Public Instruction. *

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Junior (1843–1897), local furniture maker and member of the NSW Parliament who also became Mayor of Newtown and later Ashfield. * John Paton (1833–1914), winner of the

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for bravery in India in 1857; a Summer Hill park is named after him. *

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(1867–1943), Australian artist who briefly lived in Summer Hill. * Ian Temby QC (born 1942), first head of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. *

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(1909–1973), lawyer and Justice of the

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Politics

Summer Hill is in the safe

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federal

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of Grayndler. This seat has been held continuously by

(ALP) since the seat was created in 1949. It has been held by current member

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since 1996. Anthony Albanese held various ministerial appointments under the Rudd and Gillard governments, eventually becoming Deputy Prime Minister. During the 2010 Federal election, Greens candidate former Marrickville Mayor Sam Byrne, received 45% of the vote in comparison to Albanese's 54%. At the 2013 election, Albanese received over 70% of the

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vote, making it currently the ALP's safest seat in the country. For NSW state elections, Summer Hill is in the Electoral district of Summer Hill, which was created in 2015. It is held by

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