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 Burwood Road and part of the heritage-listedBurwood Post Office, designed byWalter Liberty Vernon. | |||||||||||||
  Burwood Location in metropolitanSydney | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates:33°52′38″S151°06′18″E / 33.8772°S 151.1049°E /-33.8772; 151.1049 | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Sydney | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1814 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 2 km2 (0.77 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 30 m (98 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 18,224 (2021 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 9,100/km2 (24,000/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2134 | ||||||||||||
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Burwood is asuburb in theInner West[3] ofSydney, in the state ofNew South Wales,Australia. It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi)[4] west of theSydney central business district and is the administrative centre for thelocal government area ofMunicipality of Burwood.
Burwood Heights is a separate suburb to the south. TheAppian Way is a street in Burwood, known for its architecturally designedFederation-style homes.
Archaeological evidence indicates people were living in the Sydney area for at least 11,000 years. This long association had led to a harmonious relationship between theindigenous inhabitants and their environment, which was interrupted by the arrival of the British in 1788. The European desire to cultivate the land aided and abetted by asmallpox epidemic that forced the local people, theWangal clan, away from their source of food and their spiritual connection with the land.[5]
CaptainThomas Rowley (1748–1806) received a grant of 260 acres (110 ha) in 1799, and called his property Burwood Farm afterBurwood Park,England. Following moreland grants, his estate increased to 750 acres (300 ha). The grant stretched from Parramatta Road to where Nicholson Street and The Boulevarde are today and eastwards where toCroydon railway station is now. This is where he ranmerino sheep on the property.[citation needed]
The first house, Burwood Villa, was built in the area in 1814, the same year that astagecoach began running between Sydney and Parramatta. Burwood became a staging post along the road and the beginnings of a settlement started to develop. One of its most prominent early residents was Dr.John Dulhunty, a formernaval surgeon who was appointed the Superintendent of Police for the Colony of New South Wales after his arrival in Sydney from England in 1826. Dr. Dulhunty became famous in the colony for fighting a gang of bushrangers that attacked his residence, Burwood House. He died suddenly in the house in 1828 but his son,Robert Dulhunty, went on to become the founder of the New South Wales regional city ofDubbo.[citation needed]
Subdivisions in the Burwood area in the 1830s propelled the growth of a village and by 1855, when the railway line opened, Burwood was one of the initial six stops on the Sydney-to-Parramatta route. The railway led to a huge growth in population. In 1874, the area became amunicipality.[6]
To ease the housing crisis on 5 June 2025, the Burwood Council pushed a plan for 11,000 apartments near the new Metro with towers up to 40 storeys, in order to transform Burwood into a newfangled suburb.[citation needed]
Burwood features many fine examples of architecture from theVictorian andFederation styles.St Paul's Anglican Church on Burwood Road was designed by colonial architectEdmund Blacket and built in 1871. SirDonald Bradman and Lady Bradman, Jessie Menzies were married here in 1932. The church and its pipe organ is listed on theNew South Wales State Heritage Register[7] and on the (now defunct)Register of the National Estate.[citation needed]
NearbyWoodstock in Church Street was built in the early 1870s by tobacco manufacturer Edwin Penfold. In the 1940s, it was taken over by the army, later becoming Broughton Migrant Hostel, before being bought by the council in 1974 for use as a community centre.[8] Radio station 2RDJ-FM has been broadcasting from Woodstock since November 1983.[citation needed]
Further south on Burwood Road isThe Priory, built in 1877 by local councillor Mowbray Forrest,[9] andGayton, built in 1888 by NSW parliamentarian Richard Jones.[10][11] St Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church in Railway Parade was formerly a Methodist church and was built in 1879, listed on the local governmentheritage list.[12]
Running between Burwood Road and Liverpool Road isThe Appian Way, a model housing estate conceived by George Hoskins at the turn of the century. The street has been described as one of the finest streets ofFederation houses in Australia and is listed on the local government heritage list.[13] In the centre of the Appian Way is a communal reserve which was converted into a lawn tennis club.[14]
Burwood has a number of heritage-listed sites, including the following sites listed on theNew South Wales State Heritage Register:
The following buildings are listed on the (now defunct)Register of the National Estate[21] and/or local government heritage registers:
Burwood Park was established by the local council in 1882 on land formerly known as Edrop's Paddock. The original design of the park was based on theUnion Jack flag, although it was later modified to allow a cricket oval to be established at the western edge of the park. Other features of Burwood Park include memorials to soldiers who died inWorld War I andSandakan, arotunda, aplayground, alake and anobelisk commemorating the site of Burwood Villa, the area's first house. It is also the location for Carols in the Park each Christmas. Burwood Park is located on Burwood Road oppositeWestfield Burwood.
In the2021 census, there were 18,224 residents in the suburb of Burwood, a significant increase from 16,030 in 2016 and 12,466 in 2011. The most common reported ancestries in Burwood were Chinese 48.3%, English 8.6%, Nepali 7.9%, Australian 5.5% and Vietnamese 3.3%. 25.1% of the residents were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were mainland China 28.8%, Nepal 8.2%, Vietnam 3.3%, Malaysia 3.1% and Hong Kong 2.8%. In Burwood, 19.8% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 32.1%, Cantonese 10.8%, Nepali 7.9%, Vietnamese 2.9% and Korean 2.4%. The most common responses for religion in Burwood were No Religion 43.4%, Catholic 13.2%, Buddhism 11.2%, Hinduism 10.1% and Not stated 7.6%.[2][25]
| Burwood Park | |
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 Lake in Burwood Park | |
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| Type | Urban park |
| Location | Burwood,Burwood Council,Sydney,New South Wales, Australia |
| Coordinates | 33°52′22″S151°06′10″E / 33.8728°S 151.1029°E /-33.8728; 151.1029 |
| Created | 1882 (1882) |
| Operated by | Burwood Council |
| Open | 24 hours |
| Status | Open all year |
Burwood has a mixture of residential, commercial, and light industrial developments. The main shopping strip runs along Burwood Road, beside Burwood railway station.Westfield Burwood is a large regionalshopping centre, north of therailway line, on Burwood Road opposite Burwood Park.Burwood Plaza is a smaller shopping centre on Railway Parade, south of the railway line. "Burwood Chinatown" (traditional Chinese:寶活中國城;simplified Chinese:宝活中国城;Cantonese Yale:Bóuwuht Jūnggwoksìng;pinyin:Bǎohuó Zhōngguóchéng) is an arcade connecting Burwood Plaza to Burwood Road, formerly named Murray Arcade.
High rise residential and commercial buildings are also found in surrounding streets and along the railway line. Commercial and light industrial developments are located alongParramatta Road.
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Burwood has excellent access to public transport andBurwood railway station is on theT9 Northern,T2 Leppington & Inner West andT3 Liverpool & Inner West lines of theSydney Trains network.
Trams to Mortlake and Cabarita once travelled down Burwood Road; trams ceased in August 1948.
Transit Systems provide many bus services to Burwood, fromHurstville,Rockdale,Mascot,Kingsford,Strathfield,Homebush,Campsie,Ryde,Bankstown,Liverpool as well as other locations across Sydney. There are two terminuses, Burwood station and Westfield Burwood. Transit Systems'Burwood Bus Depot is located on the corner of Shaftesbury and Parramatta Roads.
Burwood North is a future rapid transit station to be built as part of theSydney Metro West project.[26][27]
The following were either born or have lived in the suburb of Burwood
Burwood currently has fivesister cities:[28]
Tianjin, China
Calabria, Italy
Imar, Lebanon
Sandakan, Malaysia
Utica, New York, United States of America
Geumcheon, South Korea
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