Macdonaldtown, New South Wales

Macdonaldtown
Sydney, New South Wales

Macdonaldtown railway station entrance

Postcode(s)

2042

Location

4 km (2 mi) south-west of Sydney CBD

LGA(s)

City of Sydney

Localities around Macdonaldtown:
Camperdown	Darlington	Darlington
Newtown	Macdonaldtown	Eveleigh
Newtown	Erskineville	Eveleigh

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, within the suburb of Newtown and adjacent to 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 Airport, Inner West & South Line of the Sydney Trains network.

History

The area was originally part of a grant made to Irishman, Nicholas Devine, who arrived in 1790 as the first principal superintendent of convicts. Devine built his homestead near the corner of Erskineville Road and George Street. An error about the naming of Macdonaldtown is often repeated in publications - viz. "A Mr Macdonald, who owned a large ironmongery at the corner of George and Market Streets in the city, lived near the present Macdonaldtown station and was a major property owner here." The source of the name "Macdonaltown" has a very different story, involving a scandal of forged documents consigning Devine's property to a convict. In 1846 the property in the south of Erskineville owned by Stephen Macdonald was subdivided and advertised with the name "Macdonald Town". Macdonaldtown, the whole suburb, was incorporated as a local government area in 1872 and was renamed as Erskineville in 1893.

References

The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

External links

"Macdonaldtown". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

Coordinates: 33°53′49″S 151°11′12″E / 33.896886°S 151.186767°E / -33.896886; 151.186767

Suburbs and localities within the City of Sydney

Suburbs	Alexandria Barangaroo Beaconsfield Camperdown Centennial Park Chippendale Darlinghurst Darlington Dawes Point Elizabeth Bay Erskineville Eveleigh Forest Lodge Glebe Haymarket Millers Point Moore Park Newtown Paddington Potts Point Pyrmont Redfern Rosebery Rushcutters Bay Surry Hills Sydney CBD The Rocks Ultimo Waterloo Woolloomooloo Zetland

Localities	Broadway Central Central Park Chinatown Circular Quay Darling Harbour The Domain East Sydney Goat Island Garden Island Green Square Kings Cross Macdonaldtown Railway Square St James Strawberry Hills Wynyard

List of Sydney suburbs

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