Eastern Creek, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Eastern Creek
city = Sydney
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Blacktown
postcode = 2766
pop =
area =
propval =
stategov = Smithfield
fedgov = Prospect
near-nw = Rooty Hill
near-n = Doonside
near-ne = Arndell Park
near-w = Minchinbury Erskine Park
near-e = Huntingwood
near-sw = Kemps Creek
near-s = Horsley Park
near-se = Prospect
dist1 = 35
dir1 = west
location1= Sydney

Eastern Creek is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eastern Creek is located 35 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

Eastern Creek is west of the Prospect Reservoir and is most notable for containing the Eastern Creek Raceway and the former site of Wonderland Sydney amusement park.

History

The origin of the suburb's name lies in the fact the eastern branch of South Creek became known as 'Eastern Creek'. The village that then grew where the road crossed the creek became known as Eastern Creek.

Commercial Areas

Eastern Creek features many industrial developments and often the description 'Eastern Creek Area' also includes the industrial developments in the neighbouring suburbs of Arndell Park and Huntingwood. With this in mind most statistics and demographic information is not available for this suburb by itself. Eastern Creek Waste and Recycling Centre also takes up a large part of the suburb.

Recreation

Eastern Creek Raceway hosts Round 5 in the V8 Supercar motor racing series. Wonderland Sydney was a large amusement park that operated here between 1985 and 2004. Wonderland is now the site of a business park called Interchange Park.

References

* [http://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/our-city/statistics/suburb-profiles.cfm The 2001 City of Blacktown Social Plan ]

External links

*Eastern Creek Raceway [http://www.trackcorp.com.au/track_days.htm Track Days]
*Eastern Creek Raceway [http://www.trackcorp.com.au/hot_laps.htm Hot Laps]


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