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St Peters, New South Wales

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59: 345: 43: 1052: 735: 537: 695:. The church school building was used until the present day school was erected. Although the school has had its hardships with its student enrolment reducing due to the change in demographics in the area. it still remains to this day. As of 2019, and since 2014, the school has more than doubled in number and due to the increase in unit dwellings in the area it is expected to grow over the next ten years. 627: 524:, there were 3,145 residents in St Peters. 62.4% of residents were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England (5.2%). The most common ancestries in St Peters were English 23.4%, Australian 17.5%, Irish 10.5%, Scottish 6.5% and Chinese 4.2%. 72% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religious affiliation were No Religion (49.3%), 619: 1010: 965: 66: 472:
in the 1980s. The area was covered, landscaped and revegetated so that several large artificial hills were created with sweeping views south to Botany Bay and north to the city. Four towering chimneys that carried exhaust from the brick kilns remain standing and have been incorporated into the Sydney
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In 2009, the church was given a grant of $ 30,000 from the state government for carrying out much-needed renovations. The grant was aimed at repairing cracked walls and sealing windows. Pastor Shane Rogerson said the building was "ill-fated from the beginning" because it was built on clay-based soil,
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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. It was demolished in 1953. Campbell sold his property in 1830 but reserved land for the church. St Peters was described in the 1840s as
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St Peters has a mixture of residential, commercial and industrial areas. The larger portion of the suburb, east of the Princes Highway, on the site of the former tip and historical brickworks, was industrial land until recently, but will be turned into a major road junction called the St Peters
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and for most of the 1960s and 1970s the site was used as a rubbish tip, with the vast clay pits eventually filled by domestic and commercial refuse. After the tip closed in the 1980s, it was used in for industrial purposes. In the early 21st century, the site was used to construct the St Peters
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The small, remaining part of the suburb west of the Princes Highway but east of the railway is largely residential. The main shopping strip is located along the Princes Highway, leading into King Street,
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St Peters Church of England School began in 1849. A permanent building was opened on Cooks River Road in 1855. The school was taken over by the Department of Education in 1881 and became
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in 2020. When fully completed in 2024, it will be the interchange between the M8 and a number of other motorways extending northwest, and east to the Airport.
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project. The interchange occupies a large part of the old tip site, a site larger than the entire residential part of the suburb. The eastern end of the
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Park site along with some of the kilns and various pieces of large brickworks machinery. The remains of the brickworks were heritage-listed.
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project. A portion of the suburb in the north and west, adjacent to the railway line and Unwins Bridge Road, is also largely industrial.
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The first large land grant in the area was made in 1799 to Provost-Marshal Thomas Smyth. His 470 acres (1.9 km) stretched from the
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emerges at the interchange. By 2023 the interchange will also provide connections to western Sydney via the M4-M5 Link tunnel and to
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St Peters Interchange under construction, viewed from the southwest. The residential part of the suburb is on the left of this image.
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network. City-bound trains arrive approximately every fifteen minutes in peak hour, and take about seven minutes to reach
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A major road interchange, the St Peters Interchange, occupies the eastern part of the suburb, built as part of the
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expanded to take up most of the present-day suburb - all of the land east of the Princes Highway.
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Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under
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to the present Campbell Street. After Smyth's death in 1804, the land was acquired by
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was a prehistoric amphibian and the only known species to have lived in Australia.
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St Peters is the home of the Town and Country Hotel, immortalised in the song "
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In the 1870s, St Peters was an important brickmaking centre. Eventually
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opened on 15 October 1884 and the post office opened in October 1851.
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Gregory's Sydney Street Directory, Gregory's Publishing Company, 2007
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one of the most fashionable and aristocratic suburbs of Sydney.
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Camdenville Oval sits between May Street and the railway line.
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St Peters has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
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and Sydney Park Road. Also located at this intersection is
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after his mansion Tempe House that he built at what is now
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which meant it will always have problems with cracking.
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Intersection of Princes Highway and Sydney Park Road
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Sydney
New South Wales

St Peters is located in New South Wales
Coordinates
33°54′34″S 151°10′38″E / 33.90951°S 151.17723°E / -33.90951; 151.17723
2021
Postcode(s)
Sydney CBD
LGA(s)
Inner West Council
City of Sydney
State electorate(s)
Heffron
Federal division(s)
Grayndler
Sydney
Suburbs
Enmore
Newtown
Erskineville
Marrickville
Alexandria
Sydenham
Tempe
Mascot
suburb
Inner West
Sydney
New South Wales

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