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292:“...600 acres in various sizes could be sold in sections if desirable. Minchinbury embraces 60 acres of enclosed land, and planted with about 50,000 vines in full bearing...A trap dike of blue metal runs through the Minchinbury from west to east which will be invaluable to parties contracting for blue metal for Sydney Streets. There is also a hill of trap tuff, the deposit from an extinct volcano.
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Resident Population for Minchinbury is 5,821, with a population density of 1.29 person per km. The three largest ancestries in Minchinbury in 2016 were Australian, English and Filipino. 2,074 people who were living in Minchinbury in 2016 were born overseas, 10% arrived in Australia
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A facsimile of the original CAC Avon Sabre jet aircraft (that had been installed at the entrance to the winery in 1955 with the accompanying sign "Don't Crash, Drink
Penfolds") is mounted about 10 m off the ground, in a nearly vertical manner, at the intersection of the Great Western Highway and
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This is hard and durable stone used for some years on a portion of the Great
Western Road. A tramway could be inexpensively made from the quarries to Rooty Hill Station. Fine clay for brick making and good building sandstone can also be obtained. There are three wine cellars, two sixty feet by
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Minchin Drive (adjacent to
Minchinbury Reserve). The original plane was placed there by Penfolds in the 1930s when they acquired it from Cliff Carpenter, who built it but only flew it once. It was originally crashed nose into the ground with the sign painted on the underside of the wings.
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Minchinbury is Western (Roman) Catholic, 35.3%, Anglican, 12.1%, no religion, 12%, Islam, 9.1%, Hinduism 3.5%, Buddhism 1.2%, and 4.4% did not answer the question on religion. There are several churches in Minchinbury and one Mosque including:
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The vineyards continued to be cultivated and produced high-quality wines. The new owner, James Angus, continued to expand the wine production, and he also established a quarry, a piggery, dairy and olive trees on the land.
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Penfolds Winery remains in the form of the masonry work on either side of the gate, at the top of the hill between Willis Street and Beaconsfield Road.
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within 5 years prior to 2016, 37% of people spoke a language other than English at home and 2,857 people were employed, of which 67% worked full-time and 31% part-time.
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Minchinbury also the home of Pinegrove Memorial Park and Lung Po Shan Chinese Memorial Gardens, a large burial and cremation memorial spaces in Sydney's Greater West.
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twenty, on sixty by thirty, capable of storing one hundred thousand gallons of wine and wells, tanks and lagoons with never failing water supply".
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538:Pioneers Netball Club
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170:Minchinbury
70:Postcode(s)
62:2016 census
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1163:Toongabbie
1133:Schofields
1128:Rouse Hill
1118:Rooty Hill
1113:Riverstone
1043:Lalor Park
1038:Kings Park
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149:Oxley Park
57:Population
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1168:The Ponds
1158:Tallawong
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366:Landmarks
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317:in 1916.
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226:Australia
79:Elevation
1178:Vineyard
1108:Richards
1098:Prospect
1093:Plumpton
1083:Oakhurst
1053:Marayong
1003:Glenwood
983:Doonside
953:Blackett
846:150°50′E
703:20 April
603:25 April
452:Religion
322:Branxton
311:Penfolds
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1143:Shalvey
1088:Parklea
1063:Melonba
993:Emerton
978:Dharruk
968:Colebee
948:Bidwill
843:33°47′S
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755:"About"
568:of the
560:Geology
546:Cricket
502:Busways
412:depot,
360:Barossa
324:in the
279:Ireland
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215:western
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358:, and
352:Sherry
275:Kilrea
218:Sydney
211:suburb
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