Lansvale, New South Wales
- Lansvale, New South Wales
Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Lansvale
city = Sydney
state = nsw
caption = Floyd Bay
lga = City of Fairfield
postcode = 2166
est =
pop =
area =
propval =
stategov = Cabramatta
fedgov = Blaxland
near-nw = Canley Vale
near-n = Carramar
near-ne = Lansdowne
near-w = Cabramatta
near-e = Lansdowne
near-sw = Warwick Farm
near-s = Chipping Norton
near-se = Georges Hall
dist1 = 28
dir1 = south-west
location1= Sydney CBD
Lansvale is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lansvale is located 28 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, the other side of Chipping Norton and it's lake, in the local government areas of the City of Fairfield and is part of the South-western Sydney region.
History
Lansvale took its name from a combination of the names of the neighbouring suburbs of Lansdowne and Canley Vale. [ The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, p.148, ISBN 0-207-14495-8] This area was a most popular recreational site of the early twentieth century. Latty's Pleasure Grounds, the Butterfly Hall, Hollywood Park and the Lansdowne Reserve were popular ventures which fringed the river and lakes system. The amusement parks were struggling by the time of the Great Depression and eventually the land that they occupied was acquired by the council for public reserves. [Book of Sydney Suburbs, p.148] It is a little known fact that the first games of Rugby League football in Australia, in early 1908, were trial games that took place in Lansvale, at Latty's Pleasure Grounds. This was before the first official competition games tookplace at venues closer to the City of Sydney, and well before professional Rugby League clubs came to the further western suburbs of Sydney, such as Parramatta, Canterbury-Bankstown and Western Suburbs.
A local landmark is Lansdowne Bridge, a sandstone bridge built between 1834 and 1836, designed and supervised by David Lennox. The bridge is listed on the Register of the National Estate. [The Heritage of Australia, 1981, p.2/24] Magic Kingdom was an amusement park that operated in Lansvale from the 1970s to the 1990s.
ee also
* Magic Kingdom, Sydney
References
External links
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