Roselands, New South Wales

Roselands is a suburb to the south-west of the Sydney CBD, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Roselands is located 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown.

The soil is clay, based on Wianamatta shale and is on the eastern edge of the great Cumberland Plain which extends westward to the Hawkesbury River and into the Blue Mountains.

At the time of British settlement in 1788 the inhabitants were of the Darug language group and they called themselves Kuri or Koori.

John Fenwick bought 100 acres (0.40 km2) in about 1880 from Matthew Norman in the area between Canterbury, Canarys and Bonds Roads.

King Georges Road also connects Roselands to the M5 South Western Motorway which links to Sydney's International Airport (15 minutes drive east) and west to Canberra and Melbourne.

The nearest railway station is in neighbouring Punchbowl The Lantern Club is located in Roselands Avenue.