Wendoree Park is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...

of the Central Coast region of

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, Australia, located on the north bank of the

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and the east bank of Mangrove Creek north of

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. It is part of the

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. The suburb was originally conceived as a "dream village" by Athol Leeming Spring when he purchased property there around the 1940s/1950s. He gave the site the name "Wendoree Park" and hoped to build a village there of 250 self-contained cottages, overlooking Spencer.

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Suburbs of the Central Coast (New South Wales) {{CentralCoastNSW-geo-stub