St Peters, New South Wales
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St Peters is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 7km south of the Sydney central business district in Marrickville Council. The postcode is 2044.
| Sydney suburbs near St Peters ( Marrickville Council) |
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| Enmore | Newtown | Erskineville |
| Marrickville | St Peters | Alexandria |
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| Sydenham | Tempe | Mascot |
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[edit] Transport
The Princes Highway is a major arterial road in southern Sydney. It has its origins in St Peters at the intersection with King Street and Sydney Park Road.
Also located at this intersection is St Peters railway station which is served by trains on the City Rail Bankstown Line. City-bound trains arrive approximately every fifteen minutes in peak hour, and take about seven minutes to reach Central station.
Sydney Buses service St Peters with the Tempe-bound 422 from Circular Quay and the Coogee-bound 370 from Leichhardt.
[edit] School
St Peters Public School was built in 1881 by the Anglican church and became public in the mid 1950s. Although the school has had its hardships with its student population declining, it still remains to this day.
[edit] Commercial Area
St Peters has a mixture of residential, commercial and industrial areas. The main shopping strip is located along the Princes Highway, leading into King Street, Newtown.
[edit] Culture
[edit] Parks
Sydney Park is a large recreation area close to the intersection of the Princes Highway, King Street and Sydney Park Road.
[edit] Hotels
St Peters is the home of the Town and Country Hotel, immortalised in song by Slim Dusty.
[edit] History
St Peters was named by its association with St Peters Anglican Church, which was consecrated in 1838. St Peters is the third oldest Anglican church in Sydney and has been claimed to be the first church built in Australia using non-convict labour.
The first large land grant in the area was made in 1799 to Provost-Marshal Thomas Smyth. His 470 acres stretched from the Cooks River to the present Campbell Street. After his death in 1804, the land was acquired by Robert Campbell (1769-1836), a wealthy merchant who built some of the early warehouses along the Sydney Cove waterfront.
Alexander Brodie Spark (1792-1856), was a wealthy merchant who named the suburbs of Tempe after his mansion Tempe House that he built at what is now Wolli Creek and the suburb of St Peters that developed around the church. Barwon Park House was a large residence erected by Spark in 1815 on land leased from Robert Campbell and was demolished in 1953. Robert Campbell He sold his property in 1830 but reserved land for the church. St Peters was described in the 1840s as one of the most fashionable and aristocratic suburbs of Sydney.
In the 1870s it was an important brickmaking centre. The former large brickworks is now the location of Sydney Park. Part of the brickworks remains intact within the park, as part of the town's history.
St Peters was a separate municipality from 1871 to 1949 but now falls under the governance of Marrickville Council. The town hall in Unwins Bridge Road was built in 1927 and now houses the St Peters branch of Marrickville Library and acts as a small community centre. The railway station opened on the 15th October 1884 and the post office opened in October 1851.
[edit] External links
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
| Suburbs and localities within Marrickville Council | Inner West | Sydney |
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Camperdown | Dulwich Hill | Enmore | Lewisham | Marrickville | Marrickville South | Newtown | Petersham | St Peters | Stanmore | Sydenham | Tempe |
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