Weston is a suburb of Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

, Australia

Australia

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. On Census night 2006, Weston had a population of 3,176 people.

Weston was named after a former homestead built in the area sometime around 1835. The Weston Creek grant was once held by Captain Edward Weston

Edward Weston (pastoralist)

Captain George Edward Nicholas Weston was a former officer of the East India Company who arrived in Australia in 1825 and was granted land in the Weston Creek area in 1831, previously held by James Martin, who had built a house, grazed sheep and cattle and cleared and planted...

 the Superintendent of the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney

Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney

The Hyde Park Barracks is an internationally significant, impressive brick building and compound designed by convict architect Francis Greenway between 1818–19; originally built at the head of Macquarie Street to house convict men and boys....

. Streets in Weston are named after artists.

Weston Creek Centre

Weston contains the central shopping area of the Weston Creek district, which includes the Cooleman Court shopping centre. Other facilities in the Weston Creek centre include a post office, petrol station, restaurants, clubs, real estate agents and many other specialty shops.

Churches

• St Peters (Anglican church)
• Bahá'í Faith
  Bahá'í Faith
  The Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories....
  
  
• Church of Christ
  Church of Christ
  Churches of Christ are autonomous Christian congregations associated with one another through common beliefs and practices. They seek to base doctrine and practice on the Bible alone, and seek to be New Testament congregations as originally established by the authority of Christ. Historically,...
  
   (non-denominational)
• Presbyterian
• Uniting Church in Australia
  Uniting Church in Australia
  The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union....
  
  

Educational institutions

• Orana School
  Orana School
  Orana School is a co-educational school in Weston, Canberra, Australia. It was founded in 1981. The teaching curriculum is based on the works of Rudolf Steiner. It currently enrolls children from pre-sessional kindergarten through to year 12. The school offers a wide range of subjects, and has a...
  
   is on Hickey Street
• Weston Creek Primary School in Hilder Street was closed in December 2006.
• Canberra Institute of Technology
  Canberra Institute of Technology
  The Canberra Institute of Technology is a vocational education provider in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, and is one of a system of TAFEs. Qualifications offered by CIT range from certificate to degree level. CIT has four campuses across Canberra, located in Bruce, Reid, Phillip and...
  
   Horticulture School has a campus in Heysen Street

Australian Defence College

The Australian Defence College

Australian Defence College

The Australian Defence College comprises three tri-service educational organisations operated by the Australian Defence Force in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory:* the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies ,...

's Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (CDSS) and Australian Command and Staff College (ACSC) are both located at Weston Creek.

Geology

Deakin Volcanics green grey and purple rhyodacite

Rhyodacite

Rhyodacite is an extrusive volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of granodiorite. Phenocrysts of sodium rich plagioclase, sanidine, quartz, and biotite or hornblende are typically set in an aphanitic to glassy light to intermediate...

 mostly covers Weston.
The Deakin Volcanics green grey, purple and cream rhyolite

Rhyolite

This page is about a volcanic rock. For the ghost town see Rhyolite, Nevada, and for the satellite system, see Rhyolite/Aquacade.Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic composition . It may have any texture from glassy to aphanitic to porphyritic...

 can be seen between Parkinson St and Namatjira Drive and forms a large outcrop in the park to the east of Cooleman Court.
A band of pink and green rhyolitic instrusive porphyry

Porphyry (geology)

Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass. The larger crystals are called phenocrysts...

runs across Weston from west to east. It is fault uplifted on the southern side.
Deakin Volcanics red-purple and green-grey rhyodacite with spherulitic texture is along Hindmarsh Drive on the southern border of the suburb.