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and the city, cuts through the middle of Lewisham and provides an interchange with the railway station. Several bus services (461 - Burwood to the city, 480 & 483 - Strathfield to the city) run along Parramatta Road. These interchange with the Taverners Hill stop. The other bus corridor is along
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The population had a greater proportion of people in de facto relationships and a smaller proportion of people in registered marriages than the New South Wales and Australian figures. It had a greater proportion of people stating that they had no religion (55.0%) but fewer Anglicans (5.1%) than the
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church is located in Thomas Street. The current priest is Fr. Gerald Gleeson. The Servants of Mary Help of Christians operated its Marian Centre from St Thomas Becket Primary School Hall. It is now at 2 Missenden Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2049, operating from St. Joseph's church.
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was constructed 1885-1886 featuring North American technology developed by Squire Whipple. It is probably the most significant railway bridge site in Australia, certainly in NSW. It has the unique distinction of four different types of bridges from different eras.
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Lewisham is notable in railway history as the termination point for the first train journey in the NSW colony in 1855, although the railway station was not built until 1885. The whipple
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tried to establish cordial relations with the Cadigals and their neighbours, the two groups were competing for the same food sources and tensions inevitably developed. In 1789, a
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Mother Xavier (1870–1938) who was head of the Little Company of Mary (1899–1929) which ran Lewisham Hospital and helped make it one of the top hospitals in Sydney.
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is located on 58 - 61 The Boulevarde. Lewisham Public School is located on 71 The Boulevarde Lewisham. Petersham Public School is on the border of Lewisham and
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state and national figures, while the proportion of Roman Catholics (17.4%) was lower than New South Wales (22.4%) and national figures (20.0%).
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Lewisham took its name in 1834 from the estate of Joshua Frey Josephson, a German-born businessman who would later become mayor of
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John Shand (1897–1959), Sydney barrister from the 1920s to the 1950s who took on a number of very high-profile cases of the day.
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Lewisham is also the home of the Maternal Heart of Mary Latin Mass Parish, a Personal Parish for the celebration of the
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A Trinity Grammar School Infants School was opened in February 2006 at 5 Thomas Street, Lewisham. The site was formerly
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which was founded in 1855 by the Sisters of Mercy. The school was originally for girls but became co-ed in the 1950s.
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Aerial photograph of Lewisham in the 1930s showing from left, the railway line, Lewisham Hospital and Petersham Park
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Lynch, Annie [Mother Xavier] (1870–1938) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
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epidemic wiped out the majority of the Cadigals. By 1809, all the land within Lewisham had been granted.
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arrived in 1788, the settlers set up camp in the middle of Cadigal territory. While the first governor
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Lewisham's population had a population of 2,927 in 2011, which had risen to 3,164 in the
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numbered 49 people (1.2%) which was less than the state and national figures.
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network. This provides access to Sydney CBD, the interchange station of
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indicate at least 7,000 years of habitation in the local area. When the
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NASA image of Sydney's CBD and inner west suburbs, with borders of
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designated the Viaduct in 1994 as an historic engineering marker.
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Lewisham has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
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to the city via Newtown and route 445 from Campsie to
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New Canterbury Rd. This is served by the 428/L28 from
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The original residents of the Lewisham area were the
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Index

Sydney
New South Wales

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Postcode(s)
Sydney CBD
LGA(s)
Inner West Council
State electorate(s)
Summer Hill
Newtown
Federal division(s)
Grayndler
Suburbs
Haberfield
Leichhardt
Leichhardt
Summer Hill
Petersham
Dulwich Hill
Dulwich Hill
Marrickville
Lewisham within the Inner West Council area
suburb
Inner West
Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
Sydney central business district
local government area

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