Arndell Park is a predominantly industrial suburb

Suburb

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 in the City of Blacktown

City of Blacktown

The City of Blacktown is a Local Government Area in the heart of Western Sydney, situated on the Cumberland Plain, approximately 35 km from Sydney CBD. It is bounded by the Local Government Areas of Penrith, Parramatta, Fairfield, Holroyd, Hawkesbury and The Hills Shire. It occupies an area...

, in Western Sydney

Western Sydney

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, in the state of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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. Its postcode is 2148.

This suburb is managed as a part of the Eastern Creek Area

Eastern Creek, New South Wales

Eastern Creek is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eastern Creek is located 35 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.Eastern Creek is west of the...

, along with Huntingwood

Huntingwood, New South Wales

Huntingwood is a predominantly industrial suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.The composite name was chosen because the first English-style hunting is said to have taken place here and the 'Woods Estate', owned by the Woods family for...

. With this in mind most statistics and demographic information is not available for this suburb by itself.

History

The suburb takes its name from Thomas Arndell who was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the settlement in New South Wales and arrived with the First Fleet

First Fleet

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. He later joined Captain Tench in 1789 in the journey of exploration from Prospect Hill to the Nepean River

Nepean River

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Retail and commercial services

There is a retail and commercial mall in Arndell Park comprising an Aldi

ALDI

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 discount supermarket, a Subway

Subway (restaurant)

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 restaurant, a Gloria Jeans coffee store, a solicitors office, a medical centre, a bottle shop and several discount stores and food outlets.