| Bonnyrigg Sydney, New South Wales |
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The Ming Yue Lay Buddhist Temple located on Humphries Road, Bonnyrigg |
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| Postcode: | 2177 | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 36 km (22 mi) west of Sydney | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Fairfield | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Cabramatta | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Fowler | ||||||||||||
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Bonnyrigg is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bonnyrigg is located 36 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Fairfield and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.
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Bonnyrigg takes its name from Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland. In 1803, Governor King granted land for the building of an orphanage. A two-storey Georgian house was erected in Brown Road and became the Male Orphan Schoolchildren's Residence. It was extended around 1914 and is now listed on the Register of the National Estate.[1]
Bonnyrigg lies approximately 30 kilometres west of Sydney's central business district as the crow flies and about 36 kilometres by road. Its closest major regional centre is Liverpool. The suburb is shaped like a diamond. The suburbs of Mount Pritchard and Cabramatta West lie to the east on the other side of Green Valley Creek. St Johns Park, Greenfield Park and Edensor Park lie to the north. Bonnyrigg Heights, Hinchinbrook and Green Valley are to the west. Busby and Heckenberg lie to the south.
Currently the town centre is undergoing a major regeneration through a new housing scheme - Newleaf Bonnyrigg [1] This will replace over 800 dwellings with 2,330 new homes that will see the town's population increase by over 3,000 people over the next 12 years to 2022. The project is being delivered through a Public Private Partnership with Housing New South Wales called Newleaf Communities [2]
Bonnyrigg's commercial area consists of a main hub around Bonnyrigg Plaza, a shopping centre located on Bonnyrigg Avenue (a street with a great lack of necessity). Bonnyrigg Plaza has undergone minor renovation and is due to undergo further renovations. This commercial area also has several community facilities such as a PCYC, an office of the Housing NSW department and a public library. A Bunnings store is located opposite to the plaza and the local primary school is adjacent to Bonnyrigg Plaza.
Brown Rd in Bonnyrigg is also a commercial area, albeit smaller. It contains several mixed business Asian stores, a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant and take away, newsagency and Liberty petrol station.
The closest train station is Cabramatta, on the South line and Inner West line. There are bus links to Cabramatta Station and other nearby stations.
Bonnyrigg is served by several bus routes operated by Westbus and Oliveri’s MetroLink. Western Sydney Buses has a Liverpool to Parramatta transitway service, the T80, which operates via Bonnyrigg, stopping near Bonnyrigg Plaza.
Bonnyrigg is home to the New South Wales Premier League football (soccer) club Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club.