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Cammeray Entity
Campbelltown Entity
Campbelltown common Entity
Camperdown Entity
Camperdown Cemetery Entity
Campsie Entity
Canada Bay Entity
Canley Heights Entity
Canley Vale Entity
Canoelands Entity
Canterbury Entity
Canterbury Sugarworks Entity
Caravan Head Entity
Cardinal Stepinac Retirement Village Entity
Careel Bay Entity
Careening Cove Entity
Caringbah Entity
Carlingford Entity
Carlton Entity
Carnarvon golf course Entity
Carnes Hill Entity
Carramar Entity
Carss Bush Park Entity
Carss Park Entity
Cartwright Entity
Castle Cove Entity
Castle Hill Entity
Castlecrag Entity
Castlereagh Entity
Casula Entity
Catalina race track Entity
Catherine Field Entity
Cattai Entity
Cattai Farm Entity
Cattai National Park Entity
Cawdor Entity
Cecil Hills Entity
Cecil Park Entity
Centennial Park Entity
Central Markets Entity
Charing Cross Entity
Chatham Village Entity
Chatswood Entity
Chatswood West Entity
Cheers' farm, Manly Entity
Cheltenham Entity
Cherrybrook Entity
Chester Hill Entity
Chesterfield Estate Entity
Chifley Entity

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Cammeray

North Sydney suburb named for the Aboriginal clan, Cameeray-gal, who previously inhabited the area. It was cut in two by the building of the Warringah Expressway in the 1960s.

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Campbelltown

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Suburb on Sydney's south-western fringes which grew from a township founded in 1820 by Governor Macquarie that commemorates his wife Elizabeth's maiden name. Rural in nature until the 1960s, the suburb has since grown into a major population centre.

Campbelltown common

Open area available for temporary grazing and firewood collection until it was opened for selection and subdivision at the end of the nineteenth century. It became the site of the present-day suburb of Kentlyn.

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Camperdown

Inner-western suburb, home to the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, as well as high-density residential dwellings, mainly gentrified workers' terraces and apartment buildings. It is named after a naval battle in which Governor Bligh took part in 1797.

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Camperdown Cemetery

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Private cemetery in Newtown that was consecrated in January 1849 and remained the main burial ground for the Church of England until the opening of Rookwood in 1868. St Stephen's Anglican church was built in the middle of it in the early 1870s. All but 4 acres of the cemetery were resumed in 1948 to become the Camperdown Memorial Rest Park.

Campsie

South-western suburb on the southern bank of the Cooks River which is the commercial and administrative centre of the City of Canterbury. It is named after the district in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Canada Bay

Inner west residential suburb which takes its name from the bay on the Parramatta River. The name honours French-Canadian rebels who were transported to Australia in the nineteenth century.

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Canley Heights

South-western suburb named by Henry Parkes after his birthplace in Warwickshire, England.

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Canley Vale

South-western suburb named by Henry Parkes after his birthplace in Warwickshire, England.

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Canoelands

Sparsely populated far northern suburb, bounded to the north and east by the Hawkesbury River. It was officially named in 1995.

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Canterbury

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Inner-western suburb bisected by the Cooks River which was a hub of industry during the nineteenth century. The area's first land grant was to the Rev. Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, who named it as a tribute to Canterbury in England.

Canterbury Sugarworks

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One of the oldest factory complexes in Australia, the site in Sugar House Road Canterbury has housed a variety of manufacturing and processing companies including sugar, bacon and engineering before conversion to residential apartments.

Caravan Head

Locality on the southern bank of the Georges River near Oyster Bay.

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Cardinal Stepinac Retirement Village

Retirement home for aged Croatian migrants in Sydney.

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Careel Bay

Bay on Pittwater near Avalon Beach and Palm Beach

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Careening Cove

Cove at Kirribilli named for the practice of cleaning, or careening, vessels in the early days of settlement.

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Caringbah

Southern mixed residential, commercial and light industrial suburb whose Aboriginal meaning is 'small wallaby'. Most of the area was used for market gardening until after the Second World War.

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Carlingford

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North-western residential suburb which was an important agricultural area prior to the urbanisation that followed World War II. Originally inhabited by the Burramattagal clan, it became known for citrus orchards.

Carlton

Southern residential suburb, which developed after the railway reached nearby Hurstville in 1884. The name of Forest Road comes from the area once being heavily timbered.

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Carnarvon golf course

Golf course in Lidcombe, established on the site of Lidcombe Hospital dairy.

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Carnes Hill

Southwestern residential suburb where Amos Miller is credited with having grown the first crops of wheat around 1840. Formerly a rural locality, it was designated a separate suburb in 2010.

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Carramar

Small south-western residential suburb, named for an Aboriginal word meaning 'shade of trees'. Fishing, boating and swimming in Prospect Creek were popular there in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Carss Bush Park

Bush reserve on Kogarah Bay east of Blakehurst.

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Carss Park

Southern residential suburb. Part of the Carrs family estate, Carrs Bush Park on Kogarah Bay was dedicated on 26 January 1924, while 150 residential lots were auctioned on the same day.

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Cartwright

South-western residential suburb between Cabramatta Creek and Hoxton Park Road, named after the Reverend Robert Cartwright (1771-1856) of St Luke's, Liverpool. It was developed by the New South Wales Housing Commission as part of its Green Valley scheme in the 1960s.

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Castle Cove

Northern residential suburb. It is named after Innisfallen Castle, the Gothic style home of Henry Willis, Member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

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Castle Hill

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North-western suburb which was a Government Farm at the turn of the nineteenth century, and later the location of many orchards and market gardens, which have since given way to residential development.

Castlecrag

Residential suburb on north shore surrounded by Middle Harbour which was originally planned by architect Walter Burley Griffin. It was the first planned suburb to incorporate natural bushland in its design.

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Castlereagh

Western semi-rural suburb, on eastern bank of Nepean River north of Penrith. One of the five 'Macquarie towns' proclaimed in 1810, it is now the site of the Penrith Lakes Scheme and the Sydney International Regatta Centre.

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Casula

South-western residential suburb named after the homestead of early settler Richard Guise. A riot by troops at Casula camp in 1916 led to the introduction of 6 o'clock closing for hotels.

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Catalina race track

Motor racing track in Katoomba used from the 1960s to the 1990s for many kinds of racing. The site was declared an Aboriginal place in 2002, recognising the prior occupation of The Gully as an Aboriginal summer camp.

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Catherine Field

Semi-rural south-western suburb in Camden local government area. It was home to the El Caballo Blanco theme park in the 1980s.

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Cattai

North-western rural village. Its name is derived from an Aboriginal word thought to mean 'swampy land'.

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Cattai Farm

Homestead of Thomas Arndell now part of Cattai National Park.

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Cattai National Park

National park north-west of Sydney on site of Thomas Arndell's farm.

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Cawdor

Semi-rural township in Sydney's far south-west.

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Cecil Hills

South-western residential suburb, named for the farm of John Wylde, Judge Advocate 1816-1825. Much of it stayed intact until after the land was purchased for subdivision by the New South Wales Government in the 1970s. It was gazetted as a suburb in 1992.

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Cecil Park

South-western semi-rural suburb originally occupied by people from the Cabrogal tribe, a sub-group of the Gandangara tribe. European settlement began in the early 1800s, when it was owned by Simeon Lord. It was designated a suburb in 1991.

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Centennial Park

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The largest urban park in the southern hemisphere, developed as a parkland since the early days of European settlement. It also gives its name to the small residential suburb on its western fringe, whose most famous resident was Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White.

Central Markets

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Produce markets established in 1810 because of their proximity to Darling Harbour and the road west. Greenway's 1820 designs for more permanent buildings for market also included a plan for a town hall but were not approved by Commissioner Bigge who thought the grandeur of his proposed structures unnecessary. In 1825 Greenway described the dome in his original designs as 'very different from the one carried into effect, which I consider only fit to decorate the Temple of Cloacina'. In the early 1830s, part of the market was demolished and Greenway's domed Market House was converted for use as Central Police Station and the markets were moved to the rear of the building. The activity, smell and noise of the markets made their position undesirable by the 1870s and they were demolished in the late 1880s and early 1890s for the construction of the Queen Victoria Building.

Charing Cross

Planned as the commercial and retail centre of Waverley it did not develop quickly despite early tram access in 1881. It remained a village centre well into the twentieth century.

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Chatham Village

Locality on the south-western side of Moorebank

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Chatswood

Northern residential suburb which developed as a major business and retail district from the 1950s. High-rise residential development since the 1990s has attracted an influx of residents from Asian countries including China, Hong Kong and Korea.

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Chatswood West

Leafy residential area in the Lane Cove River valley, separated from Chatswood in 2006. It was the site of the 1963 Bogle-Chandler mystery.

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Cheers' farm, Manly

Farm of Richard Cheers, an early recipient of a land grant near Little Manly Cove.

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Cheltenham

North-western residential suburb. Built on part of the Field of Mars Common, it was named by landowner William Chorley, who put a covenant on the land to ensure it would retain its bushland character after subdivison.

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Cherrybrook

Gently undulating former orchard land which began to be subdivided in the 1970s. It was separated from West Pennant Hills in 1995.

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Chester Hill

Western residential suburb. The name was conferred by local resident Miss H. A. McMillan, after her earlier suggestions 'Hillcrest' and 'Hillchester' failed to meet with official approval.

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Chesterfield Estate

Private estate in present-day Bronte which was subdivided in 1909.

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Chifley

South-eastern residential suburb, named after the 1940s prime minister. It was separated from Matraville in 1964.

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