Colyton, New South Wales

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Colyton is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.It is located on the easternmost side of the City of Penrith Local Government Area. Its boundary is Ropes Creek, the Great Western Highway, Marsden Road and the M4 Western Motorway. Colyton is within the greater regional locality of St Marys. This suburb is mainly residential, featuring large sporting fields, a primary school, high school, shopping centre and a Life Education Centre. There is some industrial activity along Roper Road. With convenient access to both the Great Western Highway and the M4 Motorway, Colyton residents are easily able to travel to work and to leisure activities. Colyton is one of the older established suburbs with older homes on large blocks of land. Historically, the name Colyton generally referred to the area east of Ropes Creek. The present site of Colyton was traditionally known as St Marys. Colyton is around 40km away from Sydney.

[edit] The Name Colyton

Colyton is named after Colyton House in Devon, England, which had been the family home of the wife of William Cox Junior, son of the famous builder of the road across the Blue Mountains, also named William. The property of 800 acres had been granted to Cox on the 17 August 1819 by Governor Macquarie. It was located on the southern side of the Western Highway opposite the present Colyton Primary School. The land was only used for grazing and wheat growing. On 9 April 1842, a notice appeared in the Sydney Herald advertising the auction sale of William Cox's estate to form the 'Village of Colyton' with surrounding farmlets. The land was described as partly forest and partly alluvial with grass on it being 'abundant and nutritious'. The timber on the land was described as being fit for 'building and farming purposes' and the water 'abundant and never failing' from nearby Rope's Creek. Colyton is now a suburb within the larger regional district of St Marys.