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Casula Suburb Overview

Casula is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 35 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

Casula is the first suburb immediately south of Liverpool on the Hume Highway and the Main Southern Railway between Sydney and Melbourne. Casula consists of undulating, gently rolling land, with elevations across the suburb being mostly between 30 and 70 metres above sea level. The Georges River forms the eastern boundary of the suburb, and its western bank is paralleled by a relatively steep escarpment.

The original inhabitants of the Casula area were the Tharawal or “Dharawal” people of the greater Eora nation. ‘Tharawal’ is the indigenous terminology that refers to the country and people who belong to Greater Southern and South-Western Sydney. The Tharawal Local Aboriginal Land Council extends through Liverpool, Camden, Campbelltown and Wollondilly Local Government Areas . The totem animal for Tharawal country is the Superb Lyre Bird .

Casula was first settled by agriculturalists in the nineteenth century, among them Richard Guise, who named his farm “Casula”. The area became dominated by poultry farming, market gardening and fruit growing. Another notable farm was Glenfield Farm, which dates from circa 1817. Situated in Leacocks Lane, it originally belonged to Charles Throsby, a member of the Legislative Council and an explorer. The farm is the oldest continuously worked farm in Australia and is listed on the Register of the National Estate.

During the First World War, a large Australian Imperial Forces recruitment and training reserve was located in Casula – a fact reflected by the name of one of its major residential streets, “Reserve Road”. This camp became briefly notorious in 1916 when a large mob of soldiers rebelled against the strict training regimen, marched on nearby Liverpool, ransacked and looted several pubs, hijacked several trains to Central Station in Sydney and continued their drunken rioting, resulting in the Military Police shooting dead one rioter.

In 1918, Walter Ingham Sr. bought 42 acres of bush land in Casula as a gift to 18-year-old son, Walter. On his death in 1953, his sons Jack and Bob took over the small chicken breeding operation and built it into the largest producer of chickens and turkeys in Australia. Inghams Enterprises is now headquartered in Liverpool.

Casula Post Office opened on 1 February 1924 and closed in 1979. A Liverpool South office was renamed Cross Roads in 1964 and Casula Mall in 1990 and remains open.

Being heavily farmed, the area did not become suburbanised until the late 1950s. Much of the acreage in the central and southern portions were subdivided and developed over the next few decades but even now there are pockets of undeveloped land.

The ecological community that once covered vast areas of South-Western Sydney, including Casula is known as the Cumberland Plain Woodland. The Cumberland Plain Woodland is listed as an endangered ecological community under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The greatest threats to the Cumberland Plain Woodland include land clearing for agriculture and urban expansion and the introduction of noxious weed species.

Cumberland Plain Woodland is formed above soils derived from Wianamatta shale of the Sydney Basin Geological group. The vegetation is characterised as a open woodland composed of canopy species: Forest Grey Gum , Grey Box , Spotted Gum and Narrow-leafed ironbark The understory is primarily composed of Blackthorn , Acacia implexa, indigofera australis, Hardenbergia violacea and Dodonaea viscosa ssp cuneata. Native grasses such as kangaroo grass and weeping meadow grass can also be found in the understory.

The National Parks & Wildlife Service Leacock Regional park is home to one of the last remaining stands of Cumberland Plain Woodland. It is also home to the critically endangered Cumberland Plain Land Snail . The ridge line at the top of the park offers views to the Holsworthy bush land. The bellbird walking track takes you through the remnant stand of Cumberland Plain Woodland and can be linked to a track along the Georges River where a lookout can be found by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The ‘Weaving Garden’ bush regeneration group are currently bush regenerating within the reserve.

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