Ashcroft Taxi

Ashcroft is a South Western Sydney suburb located 35 kilometers south west of the central business district a of Sydney and comes under the local government area of the City Of Liverpool.

Some of the area’s most famous residents include Brad Fittler former Rugby League great who attended Ashcroft High School and it was the childhood home of Mark Latham former leader of the Labor Party.

The suburb began as part of the Housing Commission’s Green Valley development and was named after the Ashcroft family a former pioneering family in the district who gave up their land for the site of the new development. E.J.Ashcroft was a butcher at Liverpool in the 1890′s who with the whole family was active in establishing meat wholesaling and retailing at the Homebush abattoir. Even though it had been named much earlier it was officially gazetted on April 7 1972.