Ambarvale is a relatively new residential subdivision of the City of Campbelltown, lining the south west fringes of the greater Sydney metropolitan area. Much discussion surrounded the naming of the locality in the mid 1980s. It was eventually resolved that the suburb should be named after the property of early settler Samuel Larkin. Larkin received a sizeable grant in the region in 1816, which he named Ambarvale. Although convicted of theft and sentenced to transportation, the educated and artistic Larkin was soon pardoned from his sentence. He subsequently served in the administrations of the consecutive Governors King, Bligh and Macquarie. Larkin wed Elizabeth Wild of a property upon the present day suburb of St Helens Park, and they later relocated their small family to operate a store in Parramatta.

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