Description
Alternate uses: Regents Park (disambiguation)
Regents Park is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Alternate uses: Regents Park (disambiguation)
Regents Park is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Regents Park is located 22 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland Council and City of Canterbury-Bankstown.
Regents Park shares the postcode of 2143 with neighbouring suburbs Birrong and Potts Hill.
History
The suburb took its name from a local property built by Mr Peck and Mr Johnson in 1879, which they had named after Regent's Park, in the north-west of London, United Kingdom.
European Settlement
The area was originally part of a land grant to Joseph Hyde Potts and the first subdivision was made in 1880. When the school opened in 1899 it was known as Potts Hill School, but became Sefton Park School in 1907 when this area became known as Sefton Park. In 1929 it was changed to Regent Park School. The railway station opened in 1914 as Regents Park but the site was changed in 1924 when the line connected Lidcombe to Bankstown.
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Population: 1001-10000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 1.987 km2
Elevation: 11-50 metres
Town elevation: 33 m
Population number: 4,926
Local Government Area: Cumberland Council