Roselands

Roselands
Sydney, New South Wales

King Georges Road, Roselands Shopping Centre entrance

Roselands

Coordinates

33°55′54″S 151°5′7″E / 33.93167°S 151.08528°ECoordinates: 33°55′54″S 151°5′7″E / 33.93167°S 151.08528°E

Population

11,167 (2011 census)

Established

1987

Postcode(s)

2196

Location

16 km (10 mi) SW of Sydney CBD

LGA(s)

Canterbury-Bankstown Council

State electorate(s)

Federal Division(s)

Watson

Suburbs around Roselands:
Wiley Park	Lakemba	Belmore
Punchbowl	Roselands	Kingsgrove
Riverwood	Narwee	Beverly Hills

Roselands is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Roselands is located 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the Canterbury-Bankstown Council.

Roselands lies in the Cooks River watershed. The soil is clay, based on Wianamatta shale and is on the eastern edge of the great Cumberland Plain which extends westward to the Hawkesbury River and into the Blue Mountains. The topography is low rolling hills. Before settlement, the vegetation was open eucalypt woodland.

The first inhabitants of surrounding areas were Australian Aboriginals who arrived about 40,000 years ago. At the time of British settlement in 1788 the inhabitants were Aborigines of the Darug language group and they called themselves Kuri or Koori. Land grants by the new colonial government began in about 1810.

This area was originally part of the suburb of Punchbowl and still shares it's postcode of 2196. H.R. Morgan was granted land in the area in 1842. John Fenwick bought 100 acres (0.40 km²) in about 1880 from Matthew Norman in the area between Canterbury, Canarys and Bonds Roads. He built Belmore House on this land, which was demolished for the construction of the Roselands Shopping Centre. The closest railway line was built to the neighbouring suburb of Belmore in 1895 and extended to Bankstown in 1909.

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