Meadowbank, New South Wales

Meadowbank is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, 15 km west of the center of Sydney. It belongs to the Local Government Area Ryde City and is one of the northern suburbs of Sydney. Meadowbank is located in a valley on the north bank of the Parramatta River.

History

Native culture

The area of Sydney Cove to Parramatta on the north bank of the Parramatta River was probably that of the Wallumedegal and had the Aboriginesnamen Wallumetta - territory of the people Wallumedes.

The Aborigines in the Sydney area were clans with larger groups who spoke the same language. They were divided into three language groups - the Kuringgai (or Guringai ), the Dharug (or Dharruk / Dharuk / Darug ) and the Dharawal (or Tharawal ). The Wallumedegal probably talked Dharug.

European colonization

The land area of the Field of Mars, which was left to the physician William Balmain in 1794, was named Meadowbank. Balmain returned in 1801 returned to England, leaving his lands the administration by his professional colleagues D' Arcy Wentworth. Wentworth agreed to the sale of the land to John Bennett, an ex- prisoner who had been transferred in 1795 to Australia. In 1819 included both the Meadowbank Estate and the northerly Chatham Farm Bennett. 1823 came Bennett's nephew, William Bennett to do so. John Bennett, who was never married, died in July 1829 and thus inherited by his nephew, the lands and built around 1835 the Meadowbank House. 1855 Bennett sold the Chatham Farm to Major Edward Darvall. William Bennett died in 1865, but his widow remained until her death in 1879 in Meadowbank. End of the 1880s the possession after the opening of the railway line was Strathfield - Hornsby 1886 split. The local train station was first called Hellenic, but was later renamed Meadowbank.

Economy

Meadowbank is a mixed use with residential development and commercial. To the train station, there are some stores and in apartment complex in the south, on Bay Drive, a shopping center.

Meadowbank is currently an urban renewal subjected canceled many factories in the course and be replaced by apartment blocks overlooking the Parramatta River.

Traffic

Meadowbank is connected to the bus, rail and Fährnetz of Sydney. The major roads lead rather than passing around the suburb, resulting in little traffic into the residential streets. The Lane Cove Road runs to the east, Victoria Road to the north and Adelaide Street to the west of Meadowbank. Other major roads are the Constitution Road, the Meadow Crescent and Bank Street.

The station is on the Northern Line of the CityRail network and has two platforms exterior. Two trains per hour drive in any direction to the railway station. During peak periods, additional trains are used.

A short distance to the railway station is the ferry pier of Parramatta to Sydney. The next pier to the west is Sydney Olympic Park, in east Kissing Point. The ferry transported on weekends mostly tourists and on weekdays professionals to the center of Sydney. Because of the shallow water in the Parramatta River, especially during low tide, catamarans are used as ferries.

Train

• Meadowbank TAFE, a school center, located just east of the station.
• St. Michael's School is a Catholic elementary school, which was founded in 1922 by the Sisters of Mercy.

Churches

• Meadowbank International Church
• Ryde Presbyterian Church
• St. Michael 's Catholic Church
• River City Church

Parks

In Meadowbank the banks of the Parramatta River and the subsequent parks are largely publicly.

• Meadowbank Park has 4 cricket courts, football pitches, 9 and 26 Netballplätze.
• The bike path Parramatta Putney performs Meadowbank.

Population

According to the 2011 census living in Meadowbank 3667 people to 0.7 km ². Of these, 1,852 (50.5 %) male and 1,815 ( 49.5 %) were female. The average age of residents is 31 years, which is significantly lower than the national average, which is 37 years. 65.7 % of residents Meadowbank ind born abroad. Most ( 27.0% ) stated to have no religion, then follows the group of Christians are Catholic ( 21.0% ), then the Anglicans (7.6%), the Hunduisten (6.9% ) and finally Buddhists ( 5.8%).

Policy

In the last elections in New South Wales 2007, the Australian Labor Party (ALP ) received the most votes ( 54.75 %), followed by the Liberals ( 30.42% ), the Green Party (7.14 %), the Unity Party ( 3.41% ) and the Democrats (1.78 %). In the last federal election in the same year, the Liberals won with 45.49 %, followed closely by the ALP with 45.33 %. After that, the Greens ( 5.53% ) and the Democrats were ( 0.7%).

The current delegates of the constituency of Bennelong in the Australian Parliament is John Alexander and the MP for the constituency of Ryde in the Parliament of New South Wales is Victor Dominello.