Macdonaldtown
| Macdonaldtown Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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 Macdonaldtown railway station entrance | |||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2042 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 4 km (2 mi) south-west of Sydney CBD | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Sydney | ||||||||||||||
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Macdonaldtown is an urban place in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to the suburbs of Newtown, Eveleigh and Erskineville. Macdonaldtown is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney and informally part of the region of the Inner West. The locality is around Macdonaldtown railway station, on the Inner West line of the Sydney Trains network.
History[edit]
The suburb of Macdonaldtown was named for Stephen Macdonald, who owned a property in the south of Erskineville. It was advertised with the name "Macdonald Town".[1] The whole suburb of Macdonald was incorporated as a local government area in 1872 and was renamed as Erskineville in 1893.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "The Names of Sydney: Suburbs M to P". Visit Sydney Australia.
Sources[edit]
- The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8
External links[edit]
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