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Liverpool
Location Liverpool is a suburb and major centre in the metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Greater Western Sydney 32 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district. Liverpool is the administrative seat of the local government area of the City of Liverpool. Population According to the 2011 Census, Liverpool's population in 2011 stood at 24,095. The original inhabitants of the Liverpool area were the Cabrogal Aboriginal people. Today there is thought to be about 2,195 Aboriginals living in Liverpool government areas. Services and Facilities Transport Liverpool is well served by roads such as the Hume Highway (also known as Liverpool Road), the M5 motorway, the Westlink M7 motorway. Liverpool railway station has services to Sydney CBD and Campbelltown as well as two morning peak services to Parramatta on most weekdays. The Liverpool to Parramatta transitway provides a bus-only route for buses. |
Schools and places of worship
There are three public primary schools within the suburb of Liverpool: Liverpool Public School, Liverpool West and Marsden Road. Liverpool Boys and Liverpool Girls are the two public secondary schools. In addition to this are Mainsbridge School which caters to children with intellectual disabilities and Liverpool Hospital School for children hospitalised for lengthy periods. Private schools include All Saints Primary, All Saints Boys College, All Saints Girls College and Al Amanah College. Post secondary education is catered to with the South Western College of TAFE, Macarthur Community College, Liverpool U3A: School for Seniors, University of Western Sydney English Language Centre and the School of Arts in Macquarie Street.
St Lukes Anglican Church, located in the city centre across the road from Westfield Liverpool, is the oldest Anglican church in Australia. All Saints Catholic Church in George St is located with the All Saints schools. St Raphael, Nickolas and Irene Greek Orthodox Church is in Forbes Street and the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Apostle Luke is on Flowerdale Rd.
Sport and recreation
Parks: There are many open spaces within the city centre, including botanical parks and sporting facilities. Bigge Park on the east side of the city features a War Memorial while Pioneer Memorial Park to the north has a historical cemetery. Woodward Park to the west is the main sporting precinct containing a number of outdoor playing fields and the Whitlam Leisure Centre, hosting a swimming pool and a 3000-seat indoor sports stadium. Other notable sports facilities within the suburb of Liverpool include Collimore Park (netball) and Paciullo Park (soccer and touch football).
Sporting teams: Prominent local teams include Fairfield-Liverpool Cricket Club which plays in the Sydney Grade Cricket competition, Liverpool City Netball, which has participated successfully in many State and representative competitions, and FC Bossy Liverpool which plays in the New South Wales Super League. The West Sydney Razorbacks basketball team used to play out of the Gough Whitlam Centre while they were in the NBL. Liverpool is also home to Australian Ice Hockey League team the Sydney Ice Dogs who play out of the Liverpool Catholic Club Ice Rink.
Shopping Centres
There are four shopping centres within the suburb of Liverpool; Westfield Liverpool, Megacenta, Liverpool Plaza and Macquarie Mall. Westfield Liverpool is the largest shopping complex in the area, this centre has a wide range of fashion stores, food outlets, restaurants, cafes, telecommunication outlets etc and also has an Event Cinema complex.
Other services and facilities
- Liverpool has a large teaching hospital, two technical colleges and many shopping centres and office buildings. The private hospital operator Healthscope owns the Sydney Southwest Private Hospital in Liverpool.
- This area has two leisure centres Whitlam Aquatic & Leisure Centre and YMCA.
- Liverpool has one community library named Liverpool City Library.
- Liverpool has an Arts and Creation centre which provides music lessons with instruments such as; guitar,drums and banjo