Oatlands is a

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. It is north-west of the

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. Oatlands is part of

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. The suburb extends from the south-east of Kissing Point Road and Vineyard Creek to the north-west bordering Pennant Hills Road and the

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area.

History

The name originally comes from Oatlands House, which was one of the earliest homes in the Parramatta district, being built in the 1830s by Percy Simpson. While it has been suggested that name reflects the first sowing of oats in Australia, this can't be confirmed. Instead, the name appears to be taken from

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, which was close to the lands of Lord Dundas, for whom the neighbouring suburb was named. In 1840, the land was sold to James Bettington, who used it for sheep farming. Oatlands House is now used as function centre, with the surrounding land forming the Oatlands Golf Course, which was opened in 1931. Oatlands was defined as a new suburb in 1991.''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia , Page 25 Prior to this, the area had been known as Dundas West. ''Dundas West'' Post Office opened on 3 July 1967. It was renamed ''Oatlands'' in 1993. In 1997, Oatlands became the shooting location with opening scenes of The Magic Club in the children's full-length film ''

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''.

Landmarks

Oatlands is home to the historic Oatlands House, located within the grounds of the Oatlands Golf Club. Annual events include the

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, attracting professional golf athletes and media attention to the area. Winners of this event include

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in 2012 (while still an amateur, and thereby becoming the youngest to win any professional tournament), Swede

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, in 2013 and Joanna Klatten of France in 2014. The club is well renowned in the Sydney area, and is nominated as Australia's best par 70 course by former touring professional golfer and now media personality

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. In addition, touring professional and multiple Australian Open and Australian PGA winner

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is a product of the cadet program at the club. He also served his PGA traineeship there, and was the club professional for some years before rejoining the tour after recovering from Ross River Fever. Oatlands also includes the area known as Burnside, which was the site of Burnside Homes, the children's homes established by Sir James Burns in 1911. Although not used for children's homes any more, the area is still the site of the headquarters of Uniting Care Burnside, an agency of the

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. The name is also used by Burnside Public School, which was built on land belonging to the trust. The area contains mainly new housing developments such as Burnside Gardens Estate.

Commercial area

There is a small shopping area featuring a post office, supermarket, fruit shop, liquor store, chicken shop, hairdressers, butcher, real estate, doctors' surgery, chemist and newsagency.

School

* Oatlands Public School is located on Belmore Street. *

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Population

At the , Oatlands recorded a population of 5,833. Of these: * The age distribution was quite similar to the country in general. The median age was 42 years, slightly higher than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0–14 years made up 18.5% of the population (national average is 18.2%) and people aged 65 years and over made up 18.4% of the population (national average is 17.2%). * 58.4% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 7.7%, South Korea 4.2%, Lebanon 3.9%, India 3.5% and Hong Kong 2.4%. * 51.9% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 9.0%, Mandarin 8.3%, Korean 5.8%, Cantonese 5.7% and Hindi 1.8%. * The most common responses for religion were Catholic 33.5%, No Religion 22.0% and Anglican 8.2%. * Of all households, 81.5% were family households and 16.7% were single person households.

Notable people

* Philip Khoury, pastry chef at

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References

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