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Northmead, New South Wales

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Northmead is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Northmead is located 26 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Parramatta and The Hills Shire. Northmead is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

Northmead is a hilly low to medium density suburb of houses, townhouses and apartment buildings framed on its eastern edge by natural bushland.

With the British settlement of Parramatta, this area was originally part of the domain of Government House. What is left of this domain, including Government House, forms Parramatta Park. The name Northmead is derived from the location of the north "mead", or meadow, of the governor's domain. The land was subdivided between 1859 and 1889 and the Northern Meadow and Western Meadow of the domain were split off and called Northmead and Westmead. From this time, orchards were established by many new settlers, including some whose names were well-known in the Parramatta area - George Oakes, Nat Payten and William Fullagar among them.

Northmead shopping centre is located on Windsor Road and features an IGA supermarket and specialty shops. The Junction is located on the corner of Windsor Road and Briens Road and features a number of retailers for home furnishings, hardware, car accessories (Supercheap Auto, Repco), electrical's like Dick Smith Electronics and franchises such as Subway and Hungry Jacks.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northmead,_New_South_Wales