page_title: Eastwood, New South Wales
section_title: Culture and events
hierarchical_section_title: Eastwood, New South Wales / Culture and events
caption_attribution_description: granny smith
context_page_description: Eastwood is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Eastwood is located 17 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of the City of Ryde and the City of Parramatta. Eastwood is in the Northern Sydney region.
  Originally thought to have been inhabited by the Wallumedegal Aboriginal tribe, who lived in the area between the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, the area was first settled by Europeans shortly after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, from land grants to Royal Marines and NSW Corps, and was named "Eastwood" by an early Irish free settler, William Rutledge. Today it is a large suburban centre in the north of Sydney of over 14,000 people, with a large shopping area. Eastwood has a large population of Asian descent with immigrants from China transforming the commercial precinct in the past decade.
  Eastwood is famous for the Granny Smith apple, accidentally first grown in the suburb by Maria Ann Smith.
context_section_description: Eastwood is well known as the place where the Granny Smith apple was first grown. This is celebrated each October with the Granny Smith Festival which attracts over 60,000 people each year. Granny Smith is a local legend and more can be read about her on a number of historical websites.
caption: Eastwood is home to the first Granny Smith apple and holds a commemorative festival every October.
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