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Hurlstone Park

Hurlstone Park is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Hurlstone Park is located nine kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is mostly in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, and partly in the Inner West Council. The suburb is bounded by: the Cooks River to the south, Garnet Street to the east, New Canterbury Road to the north, Canterbury Road to the north-west, and Church Street to the west.

Hurlstone Park
Sydney, New South Wales

4,692 (2016 census)

2193[1]

23 m (75 ft)

9 km (6 mi) south-west of Sydney CBD

Canterbury

History[edit]

Hurlstone Park was first known as 'Wattle Hill' and then 'Fernhill'. After the Postmaster-General's Department refused to open a post office called Fernhill, a 1910 referendum chose the name 'Hurlstone', after the nearby Hurlstone College. John Kinloch founded the college in 1878, on the site of present-day Trinity Grammar School and named it after his mother's maiden name, which was Helen Hurlstone. The college moved to a new site, now known as Hurlstone Agricultural High School. The 'Park' was added at the request of the Railways Department, to avoid confusion with the New South Wales town of Hillston.[2]

Ewen Park. Located along the Cooks river (in the middle of the southern end of the suburb). It is the largest individual park in the suburb and contains two playing fields that are home to the Hurlstone Park Wanderers soccer club. The fields in Ewen park are also used for cricket in summer.

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Warwick Reserve. Located at the intersection of Church and Canberra streets in the south-west corner of the suburb.

Euston Reserve. Located at the intersection of Euston and Floss streets, the reserve contains a war memorial.[6]

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Sawyer Reserve. Located at the intersection of Dunstaffenage street and Foord avenue, and at the end of the cul-de-sac of Kilbride St.

Hurlstone Memorial Reserve. A small reserve located next to the Hurlstone Park Bowling Club (along Crinan street).

Burnett Street Reserve. The reserve splits Burnett street into two sections.

Dick Poole Reserve. A small reserve that joins the end of Barre street with the point where Wallace avenue and Wallace lane meet.

Moser Reserve. A small reserve on the south side of the railway line in Keir Avenue.

Fernhill Street Reserve. A small reserve near the northern end of Fernhill street (with lane access to Barton avenue).

Dunkeld Reserve. A small reserve near the western edge of the suburb (in Dunkeld avenue).

A small reserve at the intersection of Garnet street and Tennent parade (in the south-east corner of the suburb). Located next to the 14th hole of Marrickville golf course, the unnamed reserve contains a cricket practice net and a practice goal post (for soccer and rugby).

A small reserve on the corner of Crinan and Melford streets. The unnamed reserve is a small grassed area that was opened to the public following the demolition of a single house.

A green belt along the entire southern border of the suburb. The belt follows the Cooks River and encompasses Ewen park. The Botany Bay cycle way extends for 23 km (with Hurlstone Park being approximately one third of the way from Botany Bay to Ryde). The western part of the belt contains a constructed rectangular inlet of water named Boat Harbour. The eastern part of the belt constitutes part of the 13th and 14th holes of Marrickville Golf Course. There are three-foot bridges that cross the Cooks River to the south of the belt: One bridge crosses from the end of Sugar House Road (off Hutton Street), a second bridge crosses from the end of Foord Avenue, and the third bridge crosses near the intersection of Tennent Parade and Burnett Street.

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Hurlstone Park includes the following parks and reserves:

St Stephen Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Located at 650 New Canterbury road.

Hurlstone Park Uniting Church. Located at 8 Melford street, the church provides services in English and Tongan.

Sydney Revival Fellowship Inc. Located at 83 Dunstaffenage St.

Ashram. Located at 50 Garnet Street.[9]

Siddha Yoga

Hurlstone Park Vietnamese Baptist Church. Technically, the location of the church (corner of Queen and Griffiths streets) is in the neighbouring suburb of Ashfield (but only by 180 metres).

According to the 2016 census, the top responses for religious affiliation in Hurlstone Park were No Religion 30.0%, Catholic 29.0%, Eastern Orthodox 11.2%, Not stated 9.2% and Anglican 5.1%.[8]


The suburb contains the following religious establishments:

57.2% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Greece 4.5%, China 3.1%, Lebanon 2.7%, England 2.4% and Italy 2.3%. 5

At the 2016 census, there were 4,692 residents in Hurlstone Park.

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Lesley Muir and Brian Madden (2008). . Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 27 September 2015. [CC-By-SA]

"Hurlstone Park"

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