Ingleburn, New South Wales

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Ingleburn N.S.W
Population:	10,000
Established:	1883
Postcode:	2565
LGA:	city of Campbelltown
State District:	Campbelltown
Federal Division:	Werriwa

Ingleburn is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It's postcode is 2565.

Situated in the outer South Western area of Sydney, Ingleburn is a lively, progressive township which enjoys the bustle of being close to Sydney (about 40 km, or 25 miles) It lays approximately half way between two regional Cities (Liverpool and Campbelltown).

1 What's Ingleburn like
2 Shopping
3 History
4 Education
5 External links

[edit] What's Ingleburn like

If there's a bright centre of the universe, Ingleburn is the farthest place from it.

[edit] Shopping

Ingleburn has many shopping area's just waiting for you. Ingleburn shops are:

Target Country
Coles
Woolworths
Newsagenties
Baker's Delight, etc

Once you have finshed shopping you can sit down and have a coffee or something to eat at cafe's, the local RSL and the local bowling club.

[edit] History

The site of Ingleburn was originally known as "Soldier Flat". This was because four old soldiers of the NSW Corps were allowed to take up farm grants there in 1809. These men were William Hall, William Neale, Joshua Alliot and Timothy Loughlin.

By 1826, Neale's 80-acre (30ha) grant was owned by an ex-convict called David Noonan who also purchased other sites, building up a farm of 193 acres (77ha) on the modern location of Ingleburn's town centre. Mary Ruse - the daughter of famous pioneer James Ruse - was Noonan's housekeeper and purchased the farm for herself in 1841.

Dr Carol Liston claims in her Campbelltown - A Bicentennial History that Mary held it until her death in 1874. "Elias P. Laycock purchased her farm in 1881 and his home was called Ingleburn House," Dr Liston wrote. So why then did the town adopt this particular name? The answer lies in the railway .

As early as 1869, a rail platform had been built on the old Neale grant under the name Macquarie Fields Station. This was in tribute to the huge Macquarie Field property that lay to the north. But the year 1881 saw part of this property subdivided to become the new village of Macquarie Fields. Confusion resulted and it was decided to find another name for the platform. So in August 1883, a new name of Ingleburn Station became official, called after the nearby house. And when a village later evolved around this site, it adopted the station's name. Simple.

But this neat conclusion becomes complicated if research by the late Genevieve Tregear is taken into account. Before her death in 1995, this well-known Ingleburnian compiled a history of her home town.

Her research took her to the historical section of the NSW Railway Department, where she found evidence that a Mr Goodchap, Commissioner of the Railways in 1883, had renamed the platform Ingleburn "after an English town".

Mrs Tregear wrote to English authorities, but no trace of a town called Ingleburn could be found - not even in Kent, where Goodchap hailed from. "It's all a bit of a mystery," she concluded.

Whatever the case, the nucleus of Ingleburn township was born in 1885 when a large slice of land west of Bunbury-Curran Creek was purchased by an auctioneer and developer from Sydney call FitzStubbs, who resold in small portions. And with the residential subdivision came a host of new streets and names.