Forest Lodge, New South Wales

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Forest Lodge is a small, inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 4 km south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. It is also part of the Inner West region of Sydney. The postcode is 2037.

Sydney suburbs near Forest Lodge (City of Sydney)
	Glebe
Annandale	Forest Lodge	Glebe
	Camperdown

1 Location
2 History
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Location

Ross Street and the intersecting St Johns Road, form the centre of the neighbourhood, with a small collection of bars, cafes and antique stores. The area is popular with students from the nearby University of Sydney and UTS. It is considered a quieter alternative to neighbouring Glebe, which shares many of its features. The housing stock is predominantly Victorian, a sizeable proportion of which has been converted into apartment houses in varying states of restoration.

The University of Sydney Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies is located here, as is the Medical Foundation.

Historic points of interest include the Forest Lodge Public School, the Chapman Steps, the former Alexandra Hospital, and the Glebe Town Hall, which marks the eastern boundary of the area at Mount Vernon Street.

[edit] History

Forest Lodge was named after a house built in the area in 1836 by Ambrose Foss, a chemist & druggist in Sydney. He also became an alderman and church deacon. Ambrose Foss and his colleague Edward Hunt founded the Congregational Church in New South Wales. The house stood on the present site of 208-210 Bridge Road until it was demolished in 1912.

[edit] References

The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0207144958

[edit] External links

City of Sydney: Glebe, Forest Lodge and Broadway.

Coordinates: -33.88396° 151.18150°

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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.

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