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19 Bunyala Street Carss Park Entity
Abbotsbury Entity
Abbotsford Entity
Abel Tasman Village Chester Hill Entity
Acacia Gardens Entity
Acer Arena Entity
ACI Glassworks Entity
Agnes Banks Entity
AIDS Memorial Grove Sydney Park Entity
Airds Entity
Alan Davidson Oval Sydney Park Entity
Albert Ground Entity
Alcan factory Granville Entity
Alexandria Entity
Alfords Point Entity
Allambie Heights Entity
Allawah Entity
Ambarvale Entity
Anderson Park Entity
Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool Entity
Annandale Entity
Annandale Farm Entity
Annangrove Entity
Anzac Village Entity
Appian Way Entity
Arcadia Entity
Arcadia Park Entity
Arden Vale Estate Entity
Arncliffe Entity
Arndell Park Entity
Artarmon Entity
Artarmon Recreational Reserve Entity
Ascot racecourse Entity
Ashbury Entity
Ashcroft Entity
Ashfield Entity
Asquith Entity
Atlantic Union Oil terminal Entity
Auburn Entity
Auburn Botanic Gardens Entity
Audley Entity
Austral Entity
Austral Park Entity
Avalon Beach Entity
Avalon Entity
AWA Radio Centre Pennant Hills Entity
Badgerys Creek Entity
Balgowlah Entity
Balgowlah Heights Entity
Balgowlah Oval Entity

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19 Bunyala Street Carss Park

Block of land which was the first completed sale on Carss Park Estate in 1924.

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Abbotsbury

Western residential suburb named after the estate granted in 1806 to Major Edward Abbott. It was rural until the late twentieth century when subdivision began, and was assigned suburb status in 1991.
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Abbotsford

Inner western suburb on the southern shore of the Parramatta River. It was named after the home of cabinet minister Arthur Renwick, who in turn named it after the home of British writer Sir Walter Scott.

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Abel Tasman Village Chester Hill

Retirement home established by Dutch community in Sydney.

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Acacia Gardens

North-western residential suburb. It was separated from Quakers Hill in 1996.

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Acer Arena

Indoor arena at Sydney Olympic Park, which is a venue for basketball, netball and concerts.

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ACI Glassworks

Glass manufacturing works that at its peak in the late 1960s had 33 buildings on a large site later redeveloped for dense housing.

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Agnes Banks

North-western rural district, where the Nepean and Grose Rivers meet to form the Hawkesbury River. It was originally named by settler Andrew Thompson after his mother, Agnes Bank.

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AIDS Memorial Grove Sydney Park

Grove in Sydney Park, planted by volunteers to commemorate people who have died of AIDS.

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Airds

South-western suburb in the Macarthur region. It was named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in honour of his wife Elizabeth's family estate in Scotland.

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Alan Davidson Oval Sydney Park

Cricket and Australian Rules football oval in Sydney Park.

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Albert Ground

Major cricket ground in Sydney until establishment of Sydney Cricket Ground. Now occupied by public housing.

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Alcan factory Granville

Site of aluminium production during World War II.

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Alexandria

Largely industrial inner-city suburb located south of Sydney's central business district, named after Princess Alexandra, wife of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). By the 1940s, it was the nation's largest industrial district, and called itself the "Birmingham of Australia".

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Alfords Point

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Southern suburb on the southern bank of the Georges River, opposite Georges River National Park.

Allambie Heights

North-eastern bushland suburb. Its name means 'a peaceful place'. It developed after the Second World War when returned soldiers sought land for building homes.

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Allawah

Southern suburb between Carlton and Hurstville, once known locally as 'Struggletown'. The opening of the railway station in 1925 sparked a housing boom in the area.

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Ambarvale

Far south-western suburb, 55 kilometres from central Sydney. It is named after the property of former convict Samuel Larken.

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Anderson Park

Park created on reclaimed land at the head of Neutral Bay in 1898.

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Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool

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Olympic sized swimming pool constructed on the site of the Domain Pool in Woolloomooloo Bay. Named for champion swimmer 'Boy' Charlton.

Annandale

Inner-western suburb bounded by Rozelle Bay to the north and Parramatta Road to the south. It began as farmland granted to Captain George Johnston of the New South Wales Corps in stages between 1793 and 1799, and was later subdivided with wide regular streets on a rectilinear pattern with large lots.

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Annandale Farm

Farmland granted to Captain George Johnston from 1793 which became the suburbs of Annandale to the north and Stanmore to the south.

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Annangrove

Semi-rural north-western suburb named after Annangrove House, the home of Edward Charles Johnston. He was grandson of George Johnston, who named his large grant at Annandale after his birthplace of Annan in Scotland, and his grandson also used the name for his house in this area.

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Anzac Village

A locality in the northern part of the suburb of Holsworthy.

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Appian Way

Heritage-listed precinct of Edwardian houses in Burwood.

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Arcadia

Far northern semi-rural suburb. Its peaceful nature has led churches to establish retreats in the area, including a Benedictine monastery and the Wesley Central Mission complex at Vision Valley.

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Arcadia Park

Park in Arcadia covering 18.8 hectares, including Sydney turpentine ironbark forest.

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Arden Vale Estate

Early estate in present-day Clovelly area near Greville Street which gave its name to Arden Street. The estate was subdivided between 1881 and 1890.

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Arncliffe

Largely residential southern suburb, close to Sydney Airport and bordering Wolli Creek. It was named after a village in North Yorkshire, England.

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Arndell Park

North-western industrial suburb. It was named after Assistant Surgeon Thomas Arndell who arrived with the First Fleet and joined Watkin Tench in 1789 in the journey of exploration from Prospect Hill to the Nepean River.

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Artarmon

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Suburb on lower north shore. It is divided between a leafy residential area on its eastern side and an increasingly high rise, commercial and industrial area to the west.

Artarmon Recreational Reserve

Remnant of original 57 hectare reserve including bushland with distinctive flora.

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Ascot racecourse

Racecourse where punters watched unregistered proprietary horse racing. The site is now part of Sydney airport.

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Ashbury

Inner-western residential suburb named because of its location between Ashfield and Canterbury. It was previously known as Goodlet's Bush after early settler John Hay Goodlet.

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Ashcroft

South-western residential suburb. Part of the NSW Housing Commission's Green Valley development, it was named after the Ashcroft family, one of the pioneers of the district who gave land for the site.

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Ashfield

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Densely populated and highly multicultural inner western residential suburb. Early landholder Robert Campbell's father William was the laird of Ashfield in Scotland.

Asquith

Northern suburb which combines remnant woodland with residential and industrial development. It was named in 1915 for British prime minister H.H. Asquith.

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Atlantic Union Oil terminal

Oil terminal at White Bay, Balmain.

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Auburn

Industrial suburb in Western Sydney which grew around the railway from the 1870s onwards. Now one of Sydney's most multicultural suburbs due to postwar immigration, it is one of the main Arabic/Middle Eastern centres in Sydney.

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Auburn Botanic Gardens

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Suburban botanic gardens, opened in 1977.

Audley

Home built in Bangalla Street Warrawee in a mix of Georgian Revival and Mediterranean styles which was popular before World War II, as home for Preston L. Gowing of Gowings department stores.

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Austral

South-western semi-rural suburb. Its name came from the Austral Banking and Land Proprietary which donated land for a second school in the Hoxton Park area. The school was named for the company and the name came to be used for the area.

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Austral Park

Locality to the west of Liverpool

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Avalon Beach

North-eastern suburb, built on land granted in 1833 to Father Joseph Therry, Catholic chaplain. In 1921 the developer Arthur J. Small chose the name 'Avalon', the final resting place of the legendary King Arthur. Its name was changed to Avalon Beach in 2012.

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Avalon

Residential locality 35 kilometres north of Sydney within Pittwater local government area.

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AWA Radio Centre Pennant Hills

Communication centre which used a 20 kilowatt transmitter for overseas broadcasting and the wireless telephone service to Great Britain and Europe.

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Badgerys Creek

South-western rural suburb, named for free settler James Badgery who was granted land there by Governor Macquarie. It has been proposed as the site for a second Sydney airport since 1986.

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Balgowlah

North-eastern harbourside residential suburb, which remained semi-rural into the 1920s. It became more developed after the opening of the Spit Bridge and improvements to the tram service.

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Balgowlah Heights

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North-eastern residential suburb, on the western shore of North Harbour, where the land rises up to Dobroyd Head. Much of it was virgin bushland until into the 1930s.

Balgowlah Oval

Cricket ground adjacent to Balgowlah Golf Course.

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