Brilliant examples of a revitalised suburb with many new residents across many culture proud of their homes and neighbourhoods. Some acreages toward the Ingleburn side have become some of the most valuable land in the Macarthur region! With a refurbished Minto Mall after many years in disrepair, it's wonderful to see the suburb go from strength to strength.
New houses and nice streets, the best street is Elizabeth McRae Ave as this overlook a park, great for family. Family from the local area generally come out and uses the park around 4 to 6 pm.
Proximity to the renovated Minto Mall and station and M5 and plenty of primary schools, 5 schools! When I moved here with my wife four years ago. We were newly weds and first home buyer. Everyone's reaction was Minto????. But things have changed so much. Everything here is getting better Train station, buses, malls, shops, restaurants, childcare and parks.
Neighbours are nice and friendly. Can't ask for more as its the perfect place to live, work and raise young family. Do your research. The housing commission people have only moved out whilst the government revamp the properties.
Minto is expected to have public housing properties and private ones. So whilst it might be nice now since the public housing tenants have moved to Campbelltown whilst the revamp occurs, this is not what to expect long term. I agree a hundred percent.
Most of these guys are talking on behalf of the new One Minto estate and not the whole of Minto in general. I love seeing change being brought to my community but it will very soon peak.
I grew up around Minto and have never had a problem with crime. Have been back over the years and it had changed by looking at the state of the shops and Minto Mall.
It is now changing with new streets and new houses where the housing commision were. I can't wait for Minto Mall to be finished because it was sad to see it the way it was. It is such an important part of Minto and has lots of memories for people who grew up in the area. Minto is great because it is only one hour into the city on the East Hills line and you always get a seat.
So it is really convenient if you work or study in Parramatta or the city. Some parts of the Campbelltown area are very far from a station. It is also close to the freeway into the city.
I think it is good value for money if you buy in Minto because you have all the conveniences of major shops such as Aldi as well as a new Woolworths, Best and Less, Kmart and you have the rail line very close and you can get a new house at a good price for Sydney. The Minto people thought of 10 years ago is now finished and a new Minto has been made. Just check out One Minto!
It's beautiful over there and I am very happy that I live in One Minto. All the housing commission is getting demolished and landcom is making new land out of it and selling it to people. There's still alot more stages of land to be released. The neighbours are friendly and very helpful. Minto mall is getting demolished and Minto Marketplace is going to get built on instead.
There's not alot of traffic in Minto. It's very peaceful and very quiet. I grew up in Minto and still live in Minto and my house has never been broken into. All of the dodgy people are moving away. The place is very beautiful now and you won't think that you are in Minto when you look at it now. It's a great place to grow up your kids. In 3 years time, Minto will be one of the most beautiful places in Sydney. The only area in Minto that has been redeveloped is the One Minto Estate, which is yet to be filled with the 30 percent housing commission it was originally planned to be with.
I bought a house in Minto in My wife was not too keen on living here and nor was I. But the house was a great buy, so we couldnt say no. A lot of people talk about how bad Minto is, but I have not had a single negative feeling, vibe since being here. Neighbours are good and have not had any troubles whatsoever. Because Minto was a bad area before, people still think its bad based on how the area once was.
No area is perfect and every now and then something will happen here, just like it will happen in areas closer to the city. Don't judge the area based on 2 or 3 things that happened in the past five years.
I came from an area in Casula, near Liverpool called Glen Regent estate. I must admit that the shopping centre is shocking and schools are not the greatest, besides that the area is great to live in. Very affordable for now , good transport, good roads with not too much traffic. And will only improve more once the housing development is finished. I am happy here and I am sure there are many more people that are happy living in the new Minto.
If you are new to the area please do your research, don't base your decision on the ratings you see in this site as it is easy to rate up your own town - and that's how the other comments for minto looks like. There are some good areas in minto, but beware of areas close to the large housing commission. Theft, robbery, assault, sexual offence is common, but it has reduced over the years. Some of the housing commission has also been removed, but not much has changed. As the property prices are cheap, a huge majority of the residents are labourers, and not the best neighbours.
Minto has green parks, but I won't recommend them for children because of the crime rate in minto. There is no point of a "country feeling" if it is not safe. Public transport is poor, so take into account that it is a very long drive to the city. The quality of schools in the area is very poor, so it is not the best choice if you care about your kids education. Overall, it is a below average suburb.
I agree. Dont let these fake reviews fool you. Probably real estate agents trying to sell off cheap houses in the area. I got married and purchsed a home off the plan with my wife in MINTO in , we lived there for 5 years, we never had any problems what so ever with the area and would have to say was the quietest most peaceful 5 years we have had ever since we moved in We still own the property and has been rented now for 4 years continuously.
We were first home buyers and newly weds and it was the best time of our lives. To all that are thinking of were to purchase property stop and look at minto you wont be dissapointed Me and my wife really enjoy living in Minto.
We moved here only last year after getting married. Transportation was very important for us when we were looking for an affordable home. Both me and my wife work in the city and having Minto on the East Hill train line, it couldnt be much easier!
We have detected you are using Internet Explorer 10 or earlier. It is recommended that you update your browser to the latest version to get a better user experience. Find out more. It was probably an attempt by corrupt army officers to flatter the British Governor of India that led to the creation of the name "Minto".
Yet fearing harsh retribution from London, the officers were understandably keen to curry favour with senior government authorities. So when the rebel administration opened a new farming district west of the Georges River in , they named it in his honour. And by the end of , 34 settlers had received grants there. Most of these grants were made official when the new Governor, Lachlan Macquarie , arrived in Sydney backed up by his own Scottish regiment.
Although its location was somewhat altered, redesignated further west near the Nepean River. Macquarie renamed the area skirting the Georges River as " Airds ". European settlement of the Minto area began in when Dr William Redfern , the colony's best known physician, was granted acres fronting the eastern bank of Bow Bowing Creek. In May , Dr Redfern's property expanded with a further land grant of acres.
Like Campbelltown , his property of Campbellfield was named after the Governor's wife, Elizabeth Campbell. Dr Redfern, a man of great compassion and integrity, is believed to have been born in Canada about , and qualified as a doctor in Britain in By , Redfern's Campbellfield property KB, PDF had greatly developed and expanded under the guidance of the aging doctor and his able young wife, Sarah.
Their splendid homestead was built on a high hill overlooking the farm paddocks and Bow Bowing Creek valley. Parts of this historic house still survive behind Minto Mall shopping centre. Campbellfield, often called "Campbellfields", became one of the finest vineyards and sheep farms in NSW, and at its peak would stretch from the modern Ingleburn to Leumeah railway station. But the property lost much of its impetus and prestige after the much mourned death of Redfern in , and Sarah's subsequent departure.
When a railway platform was built in to serve the surrounding farmlands, it was called "Campbellfields Station". It should be noted most of the population at this time actually lived on the western side of the line. But times were changing. It was the booming s , and the fused with Campbelltown, was loosing its attraction. Maybe the memory of Redfern was too distant to matter that much?
Developers and subdividers were now moving in, keen to use the railway station to push the site's potential. To this end, in February , the platform was officially renamed "Minto".
As well as giving the estate a new look, the title helped preserve an early district name that had almost been forgotten. Within a year, the portion of Redfern's property closest to the station had been carved up into residential lots, creating a Minto village. Redfern Road was named after the good doctor, while Minto Road was created parallel to the railway and ran north to Ingleburn.
Possibly taking a lead for the fact that Minto was an earl, the village's streets - on both sides of the rail tracks - denoted the English aristocracy of the day. The s and first half of the 20th century saw the village continue to grow, with the addition of more streets. Victoria Road was named in honour of Queen Victoria, and Albert Street which has now largely disappeared after her much-mourned husband. An early subdivision north of Minto Road created a network of streets which also only remain in small portions.
And unfortunately, the motivation for their names - Memphis Street, Nelson Street and Francis Street - can only be guessed at. By , several newer streets in the old village area had been also created.
But it was not a claim all residents welcomed, and many preferred to retain the village as the quiet community it was. But Minto in the s , with a population of little over , was hardly postcard material. A public meeting held in March described it as dilapidated and "semi-desolate".
As recently as July , the local press was running headlines: "Straying stock destroy Minto gardens. But this was all about to change. By the time the plans for this site were released in the s , major concerns were being raised by the rural minded villagers.
Mainly because the Commission wasn't planning to build free-standing homes on large blocks, but rows and rows of townhouses - still a very foreign idea. In September , the CI News reported that the first 55 homes had been completed. And like Claymore , Airds and Macquarie Fields , the entire estate was to be based on the varied-curve subdivision, where all street were deliberately curved to avoid blind corners.
But the street themselves were named with history in mind. They were all based on the "theme" of William Redfern and his life. In Redfern had been a surgeon on the ship Standard at the Mutiny at the Nore. He was accused of encouraging the crew to revolt and was therefore sentenced to death.
But due to his youth, this was commuted to transportation for life. As a convict, Redfern arrived in Sydney on the Minorca in Soon after, he was sent to Norfolk Island where he served as assistant surgeon and won a full pardon in As Redfern possessed no evidence of his qualifications he was successfully examined by three senior surgeons including William Bohan.
Redfern was assisted by an apprentice, James Shears. He also ran a busy private practice and was the family doctor of Governor Macquarie. In , Redfern had been granted his land grant in the area originally named after the Earl, Gilbert Kyngmount. The doctor married Sarah Wills. Redfern's investigations into the high mortality rate on convict transports such as the General Hewitt led to better conditions.
Redfern expected to succeed Wentworth as principal surgeon in , but London appointed James Bowman to the post instead. Disappointed Redfern resigned. Redfern began devoting more and more time to his Campbellfield farm, and others like Wangoola near Bathurst.
In , he returned to London to lobby against laws curbing the freedom of former convicts. His health deteriorated and before his return to NSW, he spent some time at Madeira recuperating. There he collected vines and fruit trees and returned to Campbellfield to plant them.
In , Redfern took his son William to Edinburgh to be educated, setting sail on the Orelia, Sarah remained in the colony with another son, but she was never to see her husband again.
He died in and was buried at New Calton cemetery in Scotland. Redfern's land was also home to the Rachel Forster Hospital. The new estate became a "political Football" in the state election of , with the Liberal Opposition accusing the Wran ALP Government of forcing its Housing Commission tenants to live in "cramped, inadequate dwellings which lack size, quality of appeal".
The Government hit back by opening its newest townhouse development - Valley Vista - for public viewing. By March , more than homes had been built by the Commission and a new "district centre" was underway. Campbellfield Public School had opened in June , and was named after the Redfern grant. Two of the new roadways built to service this "district centre" were named after old local families - Brookfield Road and Monaghan Street.
Goodwin and William Mortimer. Ben Lomond Road Ben is Scottish for "high peak" has trailed over the hilltop toward the Georges River for well over years. In , the local press reported it was "in anything but a good state". Guernsey Avenue originally stretched all the way for the northern part of Minto Road to Smiths Creek. While the Housing Commission was busy developing its new community, private developers were also creating new housing estates to the north and south.
At the same time, Leslie Homes was promoting its Eagleview Estate on the higher ground. In the south, most of the developments began in the s , continuing well into the s. Keighran, D. Allen and R. Among the better-known would be the Porter family. Robert Porter, born in , moved to the southern end of Eagleview Road in where he planted an orchard and with his son, operated brick pits in Minto from John and Phillip Sherack were vignerons, while Pierre Joseph and Michel Jerome Brial were French butchers and wool hide buyers who moved locally in the s.
Christian Ohlfsen-Bagge was an engineer who had a poultry farm at Minto. His daughters taught music. More recent identities are honoured as well, such as Frederick Goodsell, who died in All of these new roads have been built next to, or over the top of, older rural roads.
One of the few survivors is Blackwood Road. Another is Eagleview Road, named for its obvious perspective across the valley floor.
In the early winter of , the CI News reported a new acre ha industrial site at Minto was "well under way and starting to take shape". It continues: "The industrial site is literally being sculptured from the undulating terrain, by gigantic earth-moving machines. When completed the site will be transformed into a fully grassed, flood free modern industrial area.
As the first factories began to be established in , Council decided to name its new roads in the industrial estate after old farm properties.
One property easily noticed on the parish maps was Stonny Batter, a acre 96ha farm owned by John Patrick, skirting the Georges River at Minto Heights.
The road sits just a few hundred metres away from Underwood Street - and the owner of Reaghs Farm was Joseph Underwood. Merryvale Road recalls the name of a nearby house, which earlier this century was known as Oakleigh. It was the home of John Westbury, Campbelltown Mayor from Saggart Field Road notes an agricultural settlement that existed in the early s see Bow Bowing.
The main road through the estate is Airds Road, named for the early title Governor Macquarie gave the district in Some of the larger factories to be established in the estate included Atlas Plastics in , Volvo in , Pirelli Cables in and the huge Lever and Kitchen factory in The latter was dismantled in Other industrial streets, next to Minto Railway Station, were moulded from the early subdivisions of the s.
It was only in the s that these quiet residential streets were rezoned for industrial purposes. For decades motorists driving along Redfern Road had been caught in an often-hectic traffic jam at the rail level crossing.
This problem ended in July with the opening of the long-awaited Minto Overbridge. To streamline the new map created by this structure, the council has since renamed the entire roadway and overpass between Pembroke Road and Campbelltown Road as Ben Lomond Road. A small remnant of Redfern Road west of the railway has been renamed as Wiltshire Street, in accordance with the "English theme" chosen in The best-known Minto reserve is without a doubt Coronation Park.
Located off Redfern Road, between the railway line and Minto Public School, it was once an early common for the village. It was described as the "local recreation green" in , when a resident, Henry Tyler Moore, had been found there dead, shot in the head, with a revolver in his hand. In the first Minto Show was held on the ground, and the following year the State Government handed ownership of the paddock to Council.
At the time, it was called "Minto Recreation Ground". But as Queen Elizabeth 11 had been crowned in , the Council decided in December to name the site "Coronation Park", to mark the regal event. A delighted Minto Progress Association hailed it "a most suitable name". In August , the CI News reported a new zone netball association had been formed and was lobbying for the creation of a court netball complex. Coronation Park has since become the epicentre of that sport, drawing thousands of youngsters each week.
Rose Reserve notes the famous pioneer dam-builder, Thomas Rose see Rosemeadow. Parish maps indicate he owned land in the Minto area as well. Etchell Reserve was named in honour of the family that helped open up the Georges River gorge country. Redfern Park pays tribute, of course, to Dr William and his young wife, while John Rider Reserve honours the pioneer glass manufacturer. Passfield Park , like the Passfield Park Special School, recalls the name given to an early rural subdivision of the Redfern property.
Kayess Park notes a family that farmed the nearby paddocks prior to the s. Piggott Bushland Reserve off Eagleview Road recalls one of Minto's best-known families, which owned a property on the hillside called Arcadia. Charles Piggott's obituary in May gives us an insight into how hard life must have been for our early settlers.
It was reported of Charles that: "He started dairying and had built up a very creditable herd when the largest flood ever experienced in Minto about 49 years ago brought ruin to himself and his family. During the height of the rush of waters the late Mr Piggott saw that the railway line had been washed away and eminent danger was in store for the first train venturing along.
The next morning he found that his dairy herd had all been lost in the flood waters. His second effort in dairying in later years brought further lose to the Piggott family, practically the whole herd being lost through a disease which broke out in the district".
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