Huntingwood, New South Wales

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Huntingwood
Sydney,  New South Wales
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Huntingwood Fire Station
Huntingwood, New South Wales
Population3 (SAL 2021) [1]
Postcode(s) 2148
Elevation75 m (246 ft)
Location34 km (21 mi) west of Sydney
LGA(s) City of Blacktown
State electorate(s) Prospect
Federal division(s) McMahon
Suburbs around Huntingwood:
Doonside Arndell Park Blacktown
Bungarribee Huntingwood Prospect
Eastern Creek Eastern Creek Prospect

Huntingwood is a predominantly industrial suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Name

The composite name was chosen because the first English-style hunting is said to have taken place here and the 'Woods Estate', owned by the Woods family for nearly a century, is located within the suburb.

Transport

The M4 and Westlink M7 motorways run through the adjacent suburbs. Given this easy access to main Sydney's main arterial road network, companies such as Coles Myer and Woolworths Limited have transport and logistics complexes situated off Great Western Highway the between the Wallgrove Road and Reservoir Road exists from the M4.

Manufacturing

In 2014, a decision by Diageo to relocate the bottling operations of Queensland's Bundaberg Rum, to the western Sydney suburb of Huntingwood resulted in local job losses in the city that bears its name. [2]

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References

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Huntingwood (Suburb and Locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. Atfield, Cameron. "Workers sacked as Bundaberg Rum bottling moves to Sydney". Archived from the original on 7 June 2014.

Coordinates: 33°47′56″S150°53′06″E / 33.799°S 150.885°E / -33.799; 150.885