St Helens Park, New South Wales

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St Helens Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

The suburb of St Helens Park was named after the imposing Gothic mansion of St Helens Park, which can be seen from Appin Road. An early farm in the area was Denfield, presumed to have been built in 1837 by John Farley - supposedly the first man to have first seen the ghost of Fred Fisher. Denfield still stands in the southern portion of the suburb. But one of the earliest land grantees to settle in the area was Samuel Larken, who called his farm Ambarvale. (Although this grant stood on the modern location of St Helens Park, the name was actually given to its neighbouring suburb.)

The Larken property was later combined with nearby Egypt Farm and other grants and by 1886 had been purchased by George Charles Westgarth. Westgarth, a Sydney solicitor, had been in search of a country residence. His elaborately-gabled mansion was built with Minto-quarried stone, in 1887. It was based on a design by George Mansfield, also the architect of old Campbelltown Public School and the Queen Street building now occupied by the Macarthur Advertiser. Subsequently the property passed into many hands, and by the 1940s it was known to many locals as "Blowfly Farm", because it was used as a fly spray testing laboratory, until it was bought in 1949 and restored by Cyril and Mary Brookes. By April 1970, it consists of 123 acres (49ha), surrounded by Appin, Woodland Roads and the Georges River, and was run as a grazing property.

St Helens Park is one of the more modern suburbs of Campbelltown, with new subdivisions taking place as of 2006. The vast majority of new development in the suburb is in the form of detached housing.