| Newtown Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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 Intersection of King Street & Enmore Road, Newtown | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 14,690 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1812 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2042 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 42 m (138 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1.6 km2 (0.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 4 km (2 mi) south-west of Sydney central business district | ||||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Newtown | ||||||||||||||
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Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west, is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia.[2]
King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. The street follows the spine of a long ridge that rises up near the University of Sydney and extends to the south, becoming the Princes Highway at its southern end.
Enmore Road branches off King Street towards the suburb of Enmore at Newtown Bridge, where the road passes over the Main Suburban railway line at Newtown railway station.
Enmore Road and King Street together comprise 9.1 kilometres of over 600 shopfronts. The main shopping strip of Newtown is the longest and most complete commercial precinct of the late Victorian and Federation period in Australia.[3]
King Street is often referred to as "Eat Street" in the media[4] due to the large number of cafés, pubs and restaurants of various cultures.[5] Cafés, restaurants and galleries can also be found in the streets surrounding King Street.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Newtown (NSW) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Gregory's Sydney Street Directory, Gregory's Publishing Company, 2007
- ^ "Newtown". Marrickville Council.
- ^ Jagielski, Jenifer (30 July 2017). "Sydney Eat Street: Ten things to try in Newtown". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ "Menulog – Newtown Food Delivery – Newtown Take-Away Sydney". menulog.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
