Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Stanmore

Inner western residential suburb on the site of the estate of John James, named after his birthplace in Middlesex, England. He willed part of his land to the Methodist Church, enabling Newington College to relocate there.

-33.887527516202, 151.17250909497

Property
Administered by
- 2016
Part of
- 2016
Administered by
2016 -
Part of
2016 -
Type

Stanmore

CC BY-SA 2.0
,
2008

Cadigal people walked the ridge line, which later became Stanmore Road, before the Europeans arrived. The land was granted to officers of the New South Wales Corps in 1792, and became farms, orchards and grazing land. Subdivided in the 1880s and 1890s, Stanmore developed around the railway station with Victorian villas and Federation houses. In the twentieth century, the suburb's fortunes declined, but by the 1970s gentrification was beginning to change Stanmore again.