Rosemeadow is a

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, in the state of

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. Rosemeadow is located 56 kilometres south-west of the

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, in the

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of the City of Campbelltown and is part of the

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History

Rosemeadow owes its name to early settler Thomas Rose, who in 1818 bought a farm called Mount Gilead which covered parts of modern-day Rosemeadow and neighbouring

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. Rose was a baker and publican as well as a farmer, building a mill on his property and a couple of large dams which helped him and his neighbours survive the drought of 1829. The area remained farmland until the mid-1970s when Sydney's urban sprawl reached it and the suburb was officially named in 1976. The Rosemeadow public housing estate is an example of the American Radburn design for public housing which turns houses around so they back on to streets with the fronts facing each other. This design has been criticised in Sydney as contributing to social problems and following an incident of street violence in 2009 orders were made to partially demolish the estate. Since the partial demolishing of the suburb, the streets have begun to be renamed. Streets in Rosemeadow are named after characters from the works of

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, such as: * Hamlet Crescent * Macbeth Way * Othello Avenue * Donalbain Circuit * Romeo Crescent * Juliet Close * Cleopatra Drive * Anthony Drive * Antonio Close * Desdemona Street

Commercial area

Rosemeadow Marketplace, on the corner of Copperfield Drive and Fitzgibbon Lane, is a medium-sized shopping centre. The local post office sits within the Marketplace and nearby is a community health centre, fire station, high school and an Anglican church.

Schools

John Therry Catholic High School is the oldest school in the suburb, having opened in 1981. Next door is its feeder school, Our Lady Help of Christians Parish School. Public schools include Rosemeadow Public, Ambarvale High and Mary Brooksbank Special School. The oldest school built in the suburb is Rosemeadow Public School, located on Anthony and Copperfield Drive.

Parks & Reserves

There are a number of parks and reserves within or boarding Rosemeadow. These are: * Canidius Reserve * Octavia Reserve * Demetrius Reserve * Greco Reserve * Flagstaff Reserve * Oswald Reserve * Heydon Park * Rizal Park * Rosemeadow Reserve

Transport

Rosemeadow can be accessed via Appin Road or via surrounding suburbs of Ambarvale and

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. The main road passing through Rosemeadow would be Copperfield drive. The suburb is serviced by TransitSystems buses, which provide links to

and Campbelltown railway stations as well as occasional services to

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via the 888 and 887 buses.

Notable residents

* Current

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footballer Alanna Kennedy.

Demographics

According to the , Rosemeadow had a population of 8,007 people.

References

{{Sydney Campbelltown suburbs Suburbs of Sydney Towns in the Macarthur (New South Wales) City of Campbelltown (New South Wales)