REGENTS PARK, NEW SOUTH WALES

''Alternate uses: Regents Park (disambiguation)''
'Regents Park' is a western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Regents Park is located 22 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Auburn Council.

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History

European Settlement

Transport

Schools

References

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History

The suburb took its name from a local property built by Mr Peck and Mr Johnson in 1879, which they had named after Regent's Park, in the north-west of London, United Kingdom.

European Settlement

The area was originally part of a lnad grant to Joseph Hyde Potts and the first subdivision was made in 1880. When the school opened in 1899 it was known as Potts Hill School, but became Sefton Park School in 1907 when this area became known as Sefton Park. In 1929 it was changed to Regent Park School. The railway station opened in 1914 as Regents Park but the site was changed in 1924 when the line connected Lidcombe to Bankstown.

Transport

Regents Park railway station is on the Inner West line and the loop portion of the Bankstown Line of the CityRail network.

Schools

Regents Park Public School, Karingbul Public School, Trinity Catholic College, (yr 7-8)

References

★ ''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

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