West Ryde, New South Wales

West Ryde is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, 16 km north-west of downtown Sydney. It belongs to the Local Government Area Ryde City and is part of the northern suburbs of Sydney.

Ryde, North Ryde and East Ryde are neighboring suburbs. Denistone, Denistone West, Meadowbank and Melrose Park with 2114 have the same zip code as West Ryde.

History

West Ryde was an extension of Ryde, which was named a retail store by GM Pope after Ryde Store. He named his business after his birthplace Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

Economy

In West Ryde there is a shopping center near the train station and the Sydney Water Station, which supplies most of the north of Sydney with drinking water.

West Ryde Market Place is a medium-sized shopping center with a Woolworths supermarket, various shops and the West Ryde Library. Opened since the new shopping center in 2005, it took a lot of customers from the aging Top Ryde Shopping Centre in Ryde, which was forced to close and eventually was now restored.

Traffic

The station is on the Northern Line of Sydney's CityRail. Next to the station there is a bus station, which is served by the lines 501, 520, 523, 524, 534 and 543.

Building

West Ryde has a number of historic buildings, such as the Addison, the second oldest building still standing in Australia. The residential buildings of the suburb is predominantly built on ¼ acre (1011 m² ) plots individual houses in a cross-section of Australian architectural styles, such as Federation houses (1890-1920), Californian bungalows (wooden, 1910-1939 ), houses from the time of the Great Depression of shuttering boards or chipboard with corrugated iron roofs, and brick houses from the 1960s. There are also a number of apartment houses of brick from the Askin era on paved ½ - acre ( 2022 m² ) land.

Formerly West Ryde was a working-class suburb, where there were many factories, especially in the direction of Meadowbank. These old factories are being gradually demolished and in its place created apartment blocks overlooking the Parramatta River and the Olympic site. So the suburb gets progressively a richer population.

Gallery Images

Library of West Ryde

Hotel from West Ryde

Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club

Shops at Victoria Road

Victoria Road

Pumping station

Mini Railway in West Ryde (2007)

States and territories of Australia Local government areas of Australia City of Ryde Local government areas of New South Wales Ryde (New South Wales) North Ryde, New South Wales East Ryde, New South Wales Meadowbank, New South Wales Australian Bureau of Statistics
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