Horsley Park, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Horsley Park
city = Sydney
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Fairfield
postcode = 2175
pop =
est =
area =
propval =
stategov = Smithfield
fedgov = Prospect
near-nw = Kemps Creek
near-n = Eastern Creek
near-ne = Prospect
near-w = Mount Vernon
near-e = Wetherill Park
near-sw = Mount Vernon
near-s = Cecil Park
near-se = Abbotsbury
dist1 = 39
dir1 = west
location1= Sydney CBD

Horsley Park is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Horsley Park is located 39 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. Horsley Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. It is a semi-rural suburb, located 5km west of Wetherill Park and 11km north-west of Fairfield. [Gregory's Sydney Street Directory, Gregory's Publishing Company, 2007]

History

Aboriginal people from the Cabrogal tribe, a sub-group of the Gandangara tribe, have lived in the Fairfield area for over 30 000 years. European settlement began in Fairfield in the early 1800’s. Horsley Park was originally part of Colonel George Johnston’s 2000 acre property “Kings Gift”, which was given to him by Governor King for his part in putting down the Irish Rebellion at Vinegar Hill in 1804. After his death it passed to his daughter Blanche who in 1829 married Major George Nicholas Weston. He built an Indian colonial style homestead on the property and named it “Horsley” after his birthplace in Surrey, England. Horsley Homestead is one of the few remaining early colonial buildings in the Fairfield district today protected by The Australian Heritage National Trust. In 1959, the Horsley Drive (so named because it leads to Horsley Park) opened up as a continuous route from Lansvale. Horsley Park Public School was opened in 1931. [The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p.2/24]

Transport

The Westlink M7 motorway runs through Horsley Park.

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