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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Sydney Park

Park or open space

Largest park in the City of Sydney, comprising 44 hectares of rolling hills, wetlands, playgrounds, and sporting facilities, built on the site of former brickpits, kilns and municipal rubbish dumps. The brick kilns and chimneys remain as a reminder of former uses.

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Property
On site of
Bedford Brick Works
On site of
Austral Brick Company
On site of
Needham Estate
Type
Park or open space

Sydney Park: kangaroo ground to brickpits

CC BY-SA 2.0
by
Laila Ellmoos
Anne-Maree Whitaker
,
2016

The site now occupied by Sydney Park was a kangaroo ground for the Gadigal and Wangal before being granted to emancipated First Fleet convict Elizabeth Needham in 1796. In the nineteenth century it became a site for brick making and other industries before being converted to a rubbish tip in the 1940s.

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