Miranda, New South Wales

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Miranda
Sydney, New South Wales

Westfield shopping centre, Miranda

Population:

12,429 (2001 Census)

Postcode:

2228

Location:

24 km from Sydney CBD

LGA:

Sutherland Shire

State District:

Miranda

Federal Division:

Cook

Suburbs around Miranda
Sylvania	Sylvania	Sylvania Waters
Gymea	Miranda	Caringbah
Gymea Bay	Yowie Bay	Caringbah

Miranda War Memorial, Seymour Shaw Park, Miranda

The Kingsway, Miranda

Miranda Westfield

Miranda Hotel

Central Road, Miranda

Parkside Plaza, Miranda

Miranda is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Miranda is located 24km south of the Sydney central business district in the Sutherland Shire. The postcode is 2228.

Miranda has a mixture of low, medium and high density residential and is known as a commercial centre for the southern suburbs. Miranda is a popular place to shop and attracts many shoppers from the Sutherland Shire, the St George area and as far away as Wollongong.

1 Commercial Area
2 History
3 Transport
4 Notes
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Commercial Area

Miranda is most noted for its large Westfield shopping centre (mall), adjacent to Miranda railway station. The shopping centre runs parallel to The Kingsway, and is built on three blocks, crossing over Kiora Road and Wandella Road. This shopping centre was once notable, for being the largest shopping centre in Australia. Originally known as ‘Miranda Fair’, the last extension and renovation was completed in 1994, providing 107,000 square metres of retail space. Westfield Miranda was soon eclipsed in size by Parramatta's Westfield extension. Miranda Fair is currently the 8th largest in Australia. The current largest in Australia is the Knox City Shopping Centre in Wantirna South, Victoria.

Miranda also has a shopping strip, running along The Kingsway and Kiora Road. Numerous commercial developments are also located on these roads and surrounding streets. A smaller shopping centre containing a supermarket and various grocery shops is located nearby in Wandella Road. The railway station is a blessing for residents, making Cronulla beach easily accessible.

[edit] History

Thomas Holt (1811-88) owned the land that stretched from Sutherland to Cronulla. James Murphy, the manager of the Holt estate named the area after Miranda, a character in the William Shakespeare play The Tempest. In an extract from a letter from James Murphy in 1921 he said: 'The name Miranda was given to the locality by me as manager of the Holt Sutherland Company which I formed in 1881. I thought it a soft, euphonious, musical and appropriate name for a beautiful place.' It is believed that the character in the play was named after Miranda de Ebro, a town in Spain.

Originally, land was promised to Gregory Blaxland for discovering the Blue Mountains in 1813. He sold the promise to merchant John Connell for 250 pounds in 1816. Blaxland did choose the site of his land until 1831 and when he chose this area Connell claimed it. After the dispute was settled in the courts, Connell was recognised as the owner. The land was sold in the 1860s to Thomas Holt (1811-88), who planned a sheep and cattle farm. The plan failed but the fertile ground was leased by market gardeners instead.

By the 1920s, steam trams operated between Cronulla and Sutherland, via Miranda. The trip from Miranda to Sutherland took fifteen minutes and cost three pence. In 1923 there were five shops in Miranda, including a post office and butcher, at the intersection of the main road from Sutherland and Port Hacking Road. Settlements of returned soldiers from World War I were well established in Miranda at this time and the area was considered to be one of the best fruit-growing and poultry farming areas.

[edit] Transport

The Kingsway, Port Hacking Road, The Boulevarde and Kiora Road are the main roads through Miranda. Until 2002, Miranda featured a landmark that was labelled as "the number one black spot in the State for minor accidents."^[1] This was the five-ways roundabout which intersected The Boulevard, Kiora Road and Port Hacking Road. An AUD$8m project was completed from 25 February 2002 - 20 November 2002 to remove the roundabout and implement a series of traffic lights at the intersection. Statistics indicate that the number of collisions at the intersection fell from 222 in 2002 to 13 in 2003.^[2]

Miranda railway station is on the Cronulla branch of the Illawarra line of the CityRail network.

Miranda is served by the following bus routes (in order):

Route	Destination	Bus Operator
474	Ramsgate	Sydney Buses
477	Rockdale	Sydney Buses
478	Rockdale	Sydney Buses
961	Barden Ridge	Veolia
962	Bankstown	Veolia
968	Bonnet Bay	Veolia
969	Sutherland	Veolia
970	Hurstville	Veolia
971	Hurstville	Veolia
972	Kangaroo Point	Veolia
973	Yowie Bay	Veolia
974	Gymea Bay	Veolia
975	Grays Point	Veolia
977	Lilli Pilli via Caringbah Station	Caringbah Bus Service
978	Port Hacking via Caringbah Station	Caringbah Bus Service
984	Cronulla Station via North Caringbah	BusLink
985	South Cronulla via Cronulla Station	BusLink
987	Kurnell via Cronulla Station	BusLink
992	Engadine	Veolia

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

Coordinates: -34.03562° 151.10276°

Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.

[edit] References

History of Sutherland Shire Placenames
The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

Suburbs and localities within the Sutherland Shire | Southern Sydney | Sydney