Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Villawood

Western industrial and residential suburb, site of the post-war migrant hostel which became an immigration detention centre. Its name is a 1922 inversion of Woodville Road, as there was already a Woodville in Newcastle.

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