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Woolloomooloo Suburb
Woolooware Suburb
Woolwich Suburb
World Square Square or place
Woronora Suburb
Woronora Cemetery and Crematorium Cemetery or crematorium
Woronora Heights Suburb
Wowawme Locality
Wright's glue works Industrial site
Wrigley's Chewing Gum factory Industrial site
Wynyard Barracks Military site
Wynyard Lane Street or lane
Wynyard Park Park or open space
Yagoona Suburb
Yanko Estate Estate
Yaralla Estate
Yarra Bay Pleasure Grounds Park or open space
Yarramundi Suburb
Yarranabbe Park Park or open space
Yarrawarrah Suburb
Yasmar estate Estate
Yellow Rock Suburb
Yengo National Park National Park
Yennora Suburb
Yeo Park Park or open space
York Farm Farm
York Lane Street or lane
Yowie Bay Suburb
Zetland Suburb
Zoological Gardens Moore Park Zoo

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Woolloomooloo

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Once a desirable bayside address east of central Sydney, the area grew more congested and grimy as the wharves expanded and the boarding houses and pubs gave refuge to larrikin gangs and petty criminals. Though now bisected by freeways and rail it is slowly reclaiming its heritage and character with extensive residential development and sympathetic landscaping.

Suburb

Woolooware

Southern residential suburb with an Aboriginal name meaning 'muddy track'. Burraneer was separated from it in 2008.

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Woolwich

Inner north-western residential suburb named after the town on the River Thames in England, located on the end of a peninsula separating the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers. Now one of Sydney's wealthiest suburbs, it is the site of Kelly's Bush, subject of the first 'Green Ban' in 1972.

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World Square

Complex of retail, residential and commercial buildings constructed on the site of the once vast Anthony Hordern department store. When the store was demolished in 1986 the site remained empty for 20 years because of planning disputes. The complex now dominates the southern commercial section of the city.

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Square or place

Woronora

Southern residential suburb, occupying both banks of the Woronora River.

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Woronora Cemetery and Crematorium

Cemetery established in 1895 on the site of a former brick works at Sutherland. The first cremation was conducted in 1934.

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Cemetery or crematorium

Woronora Heights

Southern bushland residential suburb bounded by the Woronora River to the west, an escarpment to the north and a water pipeline to the east and south.

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Wowawme

Area on the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) at Sackville. The name was shared by local Aboriginal people with the Rev John McGarvie in 1829 as he wrote a list of place names used by the Darug and Darkinyung people along the river. Wowaw- refers to the Ancestral monster fish Waway or Wau-waiy, while ‘-me’ is the Being’s eye.The river is very deep at this point, and the hollows of the formidable cliffs above look like heavily-browed eyes, watching down the river reach.

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Locality

Wright's glue works

Factory using animal by-products from the Sydney Meat Preserving Works at Lidcombe from 1890.

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Industrial site

Wrigley's Chewing Gum factory

Confectionary factory in Asquith industrial area.

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Wynyard Barracks

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Barracks and parade ground constructed for the the military in the early days of the colony. They were used until the new Victoria Barracks were completed in 1848.

Military site

Wynyard Lane

Now a service lane for businesses it was once lined with small warehouses and an hotel which took over the former military barrack site from the 1840s. It was one of many sites named for military commander Edward Buckley Wynyard who ensured he would be remembered in the area.

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Street or lane

Wynyard Park

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Park in central Sydney, originally site of barracks parade ground.

Park or open space

Yagoona

South-western residential suburb named for an Aboriginal word meaning 'now' or 'today'. Developing as a suburb from the 1950s, it now has large Lebanese and Vietnamese communities.

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Yanko Estate

Early estate in present-day Bronte area. Yanko house was situated centrally in the block bounded by Yanko Avenue and Violet Street and was still in existence in 1915.

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Estate

Yaralla

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Estate of noted philanthropist Thomas Walker and his heir Eadith Walker, at Concord.

Yarra Bay Pleasure Grounds

Picnic and recreational facility made popular by better tram networks and longer leisure hours. The area had been leased in 1898 and refreshment rooms, stables and boatshed were completed. Popularity declined during the Depression and buildings were demolished in the 1960s.

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Yarramundi

Semi-rural settlement bounded by the Grose and Nepean rivers and the Blue Mountains. It lies within Hawkesbury local government area.

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Yarranabbe Park

Reserve between New Beach Road, Darling Point and Rushcutters Bay. From the Aboriginal name for the area.

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Yarrawarrah

Hilly far southern suburb, bordering the Royal National Park.

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Yasmar estate

The only relatively intact villa house estate remaining on Parramatta Road at Haberfield. It was formed when 46 acres of Dobroyde Estate were transferred to Alexander and Mary Louisa Learmonth on their marriage. The name is the reverse spelling of Ramsay.

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Yellow Rock

Lower Blue Mountains village on western side of Nepean River. It was badly damaged by the 2013 bushfires.

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Yengo National Park

World heritage listed national park between the Lower Hunter and Hawkesbury that forms part of the Great Dividing Range. Founded in 1993, it is one of the eight conservation areas in the Greater Blue Mountains Heritage area. The Macdonald River (Gununday) flows from the north west to the south east of the park, where it reaches the Hawkesbury River.

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National Park

Yennora

Western industrial and residential suburb, named for an Aboriginal word meaning 'to stroll'. The Yennora Wool Centre was established there in 1971.

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Yeo Park

Park in Ashfield with a heritage-listed band rotunda, on the original site of Hurlstone College.

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York Farm

Land grant made to Lieutenant John Brabyn in Denistone area.

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Farm

York Lane

One of Sydney's longest laneways which reveal some of the original warehouses which serviced businesses as well as residential conversions which heralded the return to inner city living from the 1980s.

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Yowie Bay

Southern residential suburb on a peninsula overlooking Port Hacking, named after an Aboriginal word meaning 'place of echoes'. Land was originally released there in 1889.

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Zetland

Semi-industrial suburb 4 kilometres south of Sydney, named after the Earl of Zetland in the 1870s by his relative Governor Sir Hercules Robinson. The stables of Robinson's residence, Zetland Lodge, were famous for producing champions of the turf.

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Zoological Gardens Moore Park

Zoo opened at Billy Goat Swamp in Moore Park, now the site of Sydney Boys and Sydney Girls high schools. When the site became too small the government granted land north of the harbour. The original bear pit can still be seen beside Anzac Parade.

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Zoo