Huntingwood is a predominantly
industrial suburb
An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban sp ...
in the
City of Blacktown
Blacktown City Council is a local government area in Western Sydney, situated on the Cumberland Plain, approximately west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1906 as the Black ...
, in
Western Sydney
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, in the state of
New South Wales
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Name
The composite name was chosen because the first English-style hunting is said to have taken place here and the 'Woods Estate', owned by the Woods family for nearly a century, is located within the suburb.
Transport
The
M4 and
Westlink M7 motorways run through the adjacent suburbs. Given this easy access to main Sydney's main arterial road network, companies such as
Coles Myer and
Woolworths Limited have transport and logistics complexes situated off
Great Western Highway
Great Western Highway (also known as Broadway from to , Parramatta Road from Chippendale to , and Church Street through Parramatta) is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. From east to west, the highway links Sydney with Bathu ...
the between the Wallgrove Road and Reservoir Road exists from the M4.
Manufacturing
In 2014, a decision by
Diageo to relocate the bottling operations of Queensland's
Bundaberg Rum
Bundaberg Rum, colloquially known as Bundy, is a dark rum produced in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia, by the Bundaberg Distilling Company. In 2010, the Bundaberg Distilling Company was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall ...
, to the western Sydney suburb of ''Huntingwood'' resulted in local job losses in the city that bears its name.
References
External links
The 2001 City of Blacktown Social Plan
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Suburbs of Sydney
City of Blacktown