It has a vast array of food options Italian, Japanese, Indian, Thai, and Chinese available on the main strip. The suburb is a little noisy as it is under the flight path a trait of the inner west , but the convenience factor of having everything at your finger tips restaurants, cafes, child care, schools, banks, medical facility, gym, library, supermarket, bus stops, pretty much everything etc outweighs this.
Buses arrive every 5 mins in the morning delivering you to the city in approx mins - depending which part of town you need to get to. Best of all, Five Dock is close to the Bay Run and Birkenhead Shopping centre which makes the suburb a great lifestyle choice.
Five Dock is undervalued compared to all it's neighbouring suburbs. I expect property prices to rise over the next few following years as the suburb becomes more well known especially when the council is planning to gentrify and make the suburb more vibrant and commercially appealing. I've been living in Five Dock for the past 3 months and love it! It was so named because of five rocky inlets, or docks, in the bay.
They are no longer all visible since three of them were affected by the construction of the southern approaches on the Gladesville Bridge. The name was perhaps known as early as and was certainly in use by Seven earlier grants had been made in the area, but they had been reverted to the crown by the time Governor King made the grant.
When the convict gangs began work, the whole area was covered with trees and bush, but the land was cleared and the road eventually constructed from the junction with Parramatta Road, running north towards the present day — Abbotsford.
He in turn subdivided the land into 30 and 60 acre allotments, allowing for the construction of large residences. Lyons Road, Five Dock commemorates him. Later occupants of the area of Five Dock Farm gave their names to parts of the district. Rodd Point was named after the Rodd family, who built Barnstaple Manor there n Erina Avenue, a short cul-de-sac near Five Dock Park, was named after a fine residence known as Erina House, owned by an outstanding legal man of his day, Peter Faucett.
Born in Dublin, Faucett came to the colony in He was solicitor-general from until and made Erina House his home. The house, which as now been restored, was surrounded by spacious grounds, including a vineyard. Five Dock retained its rural character longer than neighbouring Drummoyne, as the s land boom concentrated on the areas around bridges and main roads. Trams ran direct to the city. The fifty minutes journey cost four pence. Today the suburb is busy with cars and buses, but the charm of the bay with its access to the Parramatta River has not been totally lost.
An older but increasingly popular suburb, Five Dock offers a fantastic array of cafes and delis as well as a number of small boutiques. With multiple gyms of various types, Five Dock attracts varied residents as well as visitors.
Over recent years, old-time residents have seen the gentrification of their area accompanied by soaring property prices. Five Dock is also one of the only Inner West Suburbs with a full compliment of all the big 4 banks. On top of what other posters have said plus the air traffic is noisy with Five Dock being on the flight path. The locals are friendly. Not that much gentrification that I can see. Some streets have a high turnover of tenants in the apartment blocks. If you can get closer to Canada Bay even better.
Lots of young families. Has a library, parks, supermarket etc. Undervalued compared to neighbouring Haberfield. Many houses now being renovated - gentrification has begun get in soon!!!! Having grown up around the former tram line, Five Dock has a great village atmosphere.
Likewise, many of its larger, ritzy properties within its suburban streets have those distinctively well-maintained floral gardens and architectural flourishes that our Italian brethren take great pride in, and look very pretty.
Despite being quite a busy suburb in terms of activity and road traffic, the Parramatta River on either side adds more colour as a backdrop to its several excellent parks which fringe the water. Golfing enthusiasts can play a round at the Barnwell Park Golf Club and take in water views as well. As a result, breaking into the housing market can be hard here, and cost a pretty penny. This strip extends for a surprisingly long way and has pretty much everything one could want for daily life.
The downside to this strip being the focal point is how busy it is. Parking is at an absolute premium, and traffic along Great North Road often slows to a crawl. Likewise, the southern portion of Five Dock is fringed by Parramatta Road and all the associated traffic jams and noisy madness which that brings, which changes the character substantially. Lyons Road — its other busy main thoroughfare — also cops quite a bit of traffic.
Noise is thus a little bit of a factor in Five Dock. While its residential roads are pretty, wide and peaceful at street-level, the suburb does cop some of the aircraft noise the Inner West is famous for. It feels a little disconnected and insular as a result — despite how physically close it is to Sydney city, the suburb currently lacks a heavy or light rail station so bus is your main option.
While it sees extremely frequent bus services, the buses themselves have to head out on to Parramatta Road or the A4 and deal with the slog anyway which can blow out commute times quickly.
This magnificent home has been restored but it used to be surrounded by vast grounds and even boasted its own vineyard. Getting Five Dock Moving. As transport facilities were enhanced in the s, Five Dock experienced rapid population growth and with quick development, the area soon lost its semi-rural reputation.
But the greatest catalyst for population rise was the installation of the tramway system in , which became one of the largest and most efficient tram services in the world. From the early s through to the s, a significant number of Italian immigrants, specifically from the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic group of islands off the north coast of Sicily, moved to the local area.
As a result, Five Dock and its neighbouring suburbs were enriched by the culture of this vibrant country, with Italian food stores, restaurants and so many other influences still making an impact on the community today.
It was built using convict labour between and , and extended km north from Sydney to the Hunter Valley. When the convicts began constructing the road, the area was incredibly rural, covered in trees and bush land. For its time, the road was a significant engineering achievement and today a section of the road has World Heritage listing. Read more about the fascinating history of Great North Road here. The first school of the area was located in St Albans Anglican Church.
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