Liverpool, New South Wales Totally Explained

Everything about Liverpool New South Wales totally explained

ť For the local government area see City of Liverpool, New South Wales:For the State Electoral District, see Electoral district of Liverpool

Liverpool is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Liverpool is located 32 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

History

Liverpool is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded in 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
   Liverpool is at the head of navigation of the Georges River and combined with the Great Southern Railway from Sydney to Melbourne reaching Liverpool in the late 1850s, Liverpool became a major agricultural and transportation centre as the land in the district was very productive.
   Until the 1950s, Liverpool was still a satellite town with an agricultural economy based on poultry farming and market gardening. However the tidal surge of urban sprawl which engulfed the rich flatlands west of Sydney known as the Cumberland Plain soon reached Liverpool, and it became an outer suburb of metropolitan Sydney with a strong working-class presence and manufacturing facilities. The Liverpool area also became renowned for its vast Housing Commission estates housing thousands of low-income families after the slum clearance and urban renewal programs in inner-city Sydney in the 1960s.
   The following buildings are listed on the Register of the National Estate:

Technical College (formerly Liverpool Hospital), probably designed by Francis Greenway, circa 1825-30
Former Court House, corner of Bigge and Moore Streets, extended circa 1855
Collingwood (also known as Captain Bunker's Cottage), Birkdale Crescent, circa 1810, extended circa 1860
Liverpool Dam, Georges River, built 1836, designed by David Lennox
St Luke's Church of England, designed by Francis Greenway, 1818

Commercial Area

Liverpool is currently undergoing a rapid transformation into a major CBD in its own right. It has been earmarked by the state government in the coming years to be a major regional area in Sydney. It is currently the major city centre in South Western Sydney. The city centre has a Hoddle Grid layout with many little laneways and arcades, similar to that of Melbourne. The main strip is Macquarie Street which contains numerous small cafes. In recent times the extension of the Westfield shopping centre has seen many new fashion stores come in.
The main shopping area is centred on Macquarie Street, with Westfield Liverpool, a major shopping centre at the northern end. The northern end of the city has been zoned for high density residential apartments. The southern end of the city is zoned for high density commercial developments. Liverpool is also home to the largest public lending library in Australia, a large teaching hospital, two technical colleges and many shopping centres and office buildings. The private hospital operator Healthscope owns the Sydney Southwest Private Hospital in Liverpool.
Industries include a large cable factory, a telephone manufacturer, pharmaceutical laboratories and cold storage plants. Image:Liverpool Westfield 1.JPG|Westfield Liverpool Image:Liverpool Macquarie Street Mall.JPG|Macquarie Street Mall Image:Liverpool City Library.JPG|Liverpool City Library Image:Liverpool Hospital.JPG|Liverpool Hospital

Transport

Liverpool is well served by roads such as the Hume Highway (also known as Liverpool Road), the M5 motorway, the Westlink M7 motorway. Liverpool railway station has frequent services to Sydney CBD, Campbelltown and Parramatta. The Liverpool to Parramatta transitway provides fast services for buses.

Churches

St Lukes Anglican Church, located in the city centre across the road from Westfield Liverpool, is the oldest Anglican church in Australia. All Saints Catholic Church in George St is located with the All Saints schools. St Raphael, Nickolas and Irene Greek Orthodox Church is in Forbes Street. Image:Liverpool St Lukes 1.JPG|St Lukes Anglican Church Image:Liverpool St Lukes 2.JPG|St Lukes Anglican Church Image:Liverpool All Saints 1.JPG|All Saints Catholic Church Image:Liverpool All Saints 2.JPG|All Saints Catholic Church

Schools

Liverpool Boys High, Liverpool Girl's High, All Saints Catholic Boys College, All Saints Catholic Girls College, All Saints Primary School, Liverpool Public School

South Western College of TAFE

Macarthur Community College

Liverpool U3A: School for Seniors

University of Western Sydney English Language Centre

The School of Arts is in Macquarie Street Image:Liverpool TAFE 1.JPG|Liverpool TAFE Image:Liverpool TAFE 2.JPG|Liverpool TAFE Image:Liverpool School of Arts.JPG|School of Arts

Parks

There are also many open spaces within the city centre, including botanical parks. These include Bigge Park which feautures a War Memorial and Pioneer Park. Image:Liverpool Bigge Park 1.JPG|Bigge Park Image:Liverpool Bigge Park 2.JPG|Bigge Park

Sport and Recreation

Local sports clubs include Moorebank Sports Club and local team identities such as The Cattledogs Indoor Cricket team. Close to the city centre is a sporting precinct called Woodward Park which contains an indoor leisure centre as well as several playing fields.
A netball complex opened in Liverpool in 2007. Liverpool City Netball is highly regarded, participating successfully in many State and representative competitions. On a local level, OLMC netball has been repeatedly awarded the title of 'Club of the Year'.

Population

Demographics

According to the 2006 census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Liverpool had a population of 21, 318 including sizeable Arabic (12%) and Serbian (12%) speaking communities. These communities also had a noticeable impact on the religious beliefs recorded by residents with the Eastern Orthodox religion (16%) coming in second behind Catholicism (24%) and Islam (12%) pushing the Anglicans (7%) into fourth place. Significant in the Arabic-speaking community are people from Iraq which was the second most common country of birth behind Australia.
Over half the dwellings in Liverpool were apartments (52%) and a high proportion were being rented (46%). The average rent of $180 was a little lower than the national average ($190) but the average household income of $760 per week was substantially lower the national average of $1027.

Notable residents

The following people were all born in Liverpool

Cricketer* Politician Craig Knowles

Politics

Federally Liverpool is located in the seat of Hughes held by Danna Vale of the Liberal Party of Australia

For New South Wales state elections, Liverpool is located in the seat of Liverpool held by Paul Lynch of the Australian Labor PartyFurther Information

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