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Government lumber yard Industrial site
Granville Suburb
Grasmere Suburb
Grasmere farm Farm
Grays Point Suburb
Great Mackerel Beach Suburb
Greater Metropolitan Region Region
Green Hills Locality
Green Park Darlinghurst Park or open space
Green Square Locality
Green Valley Suburb
Greenacre Suburb
Greendale Suburb
Greendale Park Estate Subdivision
Greenfield Park Suburb
Greenhills Beach Suburb
Greenway Estate Subdivision
Greenway Park Park or open space
Greenwich Suburb
Gregory Hills Suburb
Greystanes Suburb
Grimes Farm Farm
Grose Farm Farm
Grose Vale Suburb
Grose Wold Suburb
Grotto Point Locality
Grotto Point Reserve Park or open space
Guides NSW Glengarry State Training Centre Camp
Guildford Suburb
Guildford West Suburb
Guldulo Locality
Gum-An-Nan Locality
Gundamaian Locality
Gundungurra Reserve Park or open space
Gunnamatta Bay Locality
Gymea Suburb
Gymea Bay Suburb
Haberfield Suburb
Halvorsen boatshed Industrial site
Hammondville Suburb
Hampton Court Tourist Residential Resort
Happy Valley Locality
Harcourt Model Suburb Subdivision
Hargrave Park Reserve
Harold Park Paceway RacecourseSporting venue
Harrington Park Suburb
Harrington Park Estate Estate
Harris Park Suburb
Hassall Grove Suburb
Hassell Park Park or open space

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Government lumber yard

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Official government lumber yard and workshop on the southern corner of Bridge and George Streets that employed convict labour. Established about 1789 after an earlier yard on Bennelong Point was destroyed by fire, the yard was enlarged and improved by successive governments. In 1832 when the yard closed and the works moved to a smaller site next to Hyde Park Barracks it was providing employment for about 183 convicts. The lumber yard was an important early centre of manufacturing - well as blacksmiths, sawyers and carpenters it employed wheelwrights, tin smiths, tool makers, brass and iron founders, coopers, gunsmiths and wheelwrights. Clothes and shoes were also produced there.

Industrial site

Granville

Western industrial and residential suburb, south of Parramatta. Named after the British Foreign Secretary, it grew rapidly in the 1880s and 1890s following the construction of the rail link from Sydney to Parramatta, thanks to its road, rail and water access.

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Suburb

Grasmere

South-western semi-rural residential suburb. It is named after the property of musician and businessman William Henry Paling.

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Grasmere farm

WH Paling's 450-acre (182-hectare) farm at Camden, made up of his purchase of several subdivisions of the Camden Park Estate in 1885. Paling then donated the land, plus £10,000, in 1888 to establish the Carrington Convalescent Hospital.

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Farm

Grays Point

Southern residential suburb overlooking Port Hacking. The origin of its name is unknown.

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Great Mackerel Beach

Villlage on western shore of Pittwater, bordering on Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. It is only accessible by boat or on foot.

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Greater Metropolitan Region

A concept introduced in a 1995 State government planning report, which envisaged planning for the area stretching from Newcastle to Wollongong.

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Region

Green Hills

Historical locality near Windsor which existed before the naming of the nearby towns by Governor Macquarie.

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Locality

Green Park Darlinghurst

Park in Darlinghurst, opposite St Vincent's Hospital.

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Park or open space

Green Square

Redevelopment area which includes Beaconsfield, Zetland and parts of Rosebery, Alexandria and Waterloo. Previously industrial precincts are to be transformed into an urban residential environment.

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Green Valley

South-western residential suburb. Originally dairy farmland, the site was subdivided in the 1960s and developed by the New South Wales Housing Commission.

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Greenacre

Western residential suburb, first subdivided in the early 1900s. It has a large Muslim community chiefly of Lebanese ancestry.

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Greendale

South-western rural suburb named after Greendale House, home of George Wentworth (brother of D'Arcy) in the early nineteenth century. It was a thriving wheat-growing district until attacks of wheat rust in the 1860s.

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Greendale Park Estate

Greenwich estate bounded by Gore Cove, Greenwich Road and a block beyond both Greendale and Glenview streets which was sold in 1885.

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Subdivision

Greenfield Park

Western residential suburb, gazetted in 1979. It is home to Assyrian and Vietnamese communities.

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Greenhills Beach

Small southern beachside residential suburb between Kurnell and Cronulla, gazetted in 2011.

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Greenway Estate

Housing subdivision in Cherrybrook named for colonial architect Francis Greenway.

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Greenway Park

Park in Cherrybrook named for colonial architect Francis Greenway.

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Greenwich

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Residential suburb on the north shore of Sydney Harbour, where the Lane Cove river joins the Parramatta River, named after shipbuilder George Green's Greenwich House. The Shell oil terminal has operated there since 1901.

Gregory Hills

South-western residential and industrial suburb, assigned in 2008. Its name is derived from the original St Gregory's Chapel on Marist Brothers land and the topography of the area.

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Greystanes

Western residential suburb, named after the 1830s home of Nelson Lawson (demolished 1940s). Developed from the 1950s, it now has large Maltese and Lebanese communities.

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Grimes Farm

Land grant of 335 acres to George Grimes in 1831 at Currans Hill.

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Grose Farm

Farm granted to Lieutenant Governor Francis Grose in 1792, which gave its name to the larger area set aside for the University of Sydney in the 1850s.

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Grose Vale

North-western rural suburb in foothills of Blue Mountains.

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Grose Wold

Scattered north-western settlement between Yarramundi and Grose Vale on banks of Grose and Hawkesbury Rivers.

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Grotto Point

Locality in Balgowlah north of Grotto Point park.

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Grotto Point Reserve

Bushland on Grotto Point dedicated as a public reserve in 1912.

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Guides NSW Glengarry State Training Centre

State training camp for NSW Guides, located in a tract of bushland in the northern suburbs of Sydney.

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Camp

Guildford

Western residential suburb named by Lieutenant Samuel North in 1837 for his friend the Earl of Guildford. It now has a large Lebanese community.

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Guildford West

Western residential suburb. It was separated from Guildford in 1994.

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Guldulo

Guldulo, or Goodoolo is an area of Portland Reach on the Hawkesbury that was pointed out by the Aboriginal people sharing information with Rev John McGarvie as he recorded a list of place names in use by the local Darug and Darkinyung people along the river in 1829. The word probably means flint/hard stone for spear points, suggesting that this area was a source for the stone, or that stone points were made here.

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Gum-An-Nan

Area near the mouth of the Cooks River which was put up for sale in fifty acres lots in 1838. Because of realignment of the river mouth for expansion of the Sydney airport the site is now under the international terminal.

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Gundamaian

A locality in the Royal National Park, on the southern side of Port Hacking south-east of Gymea Bay

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Gundungurra Reserve

Park in Mount Annan.

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Gunnamatta Bay

Area surrounding large bay on the northern shore of Port Hacking.

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Gymea

Southern residential suburb. It was named after the Gymea Lily in 1855 by W.A.B. Greaves, New South Wales government surveyor.

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Gymea Bay

Southern bayside residential suburb overlooking Port Hacking. It was proclaimed a village in 1933 and a suburb in 1973.

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Haberfield

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Inner western residential suburb. Planned by real estate agent Richard Stanton as a 'model suburb' at the end of the nineteenth century, it retains much of its Federation architecture.

Halvorsen boatshed

Boatshed where Halvorsen launches, cruisers and yachts were built at Putney for most of the twentieth century.

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Hammondville

South-western residential suburb established in 1932 by Anglican minister Robert Hammond. Inner-city, rent-paying families evicted during the Depression were provided with homes through a rent-purchase program.

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Hampton Court Tourist Residential

Proposed tourist resort at Ryde which was never completed.

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Resort

Happy Valley

Shanty town established on land owned by New South Wales Golf Club at La Perouse where over 350 people lived in flimsy shacks during the Depression. The last of the residents were evicted in 1939 and the shacks demolished. Similar camps existed along the coast around the city, including Yarra Bay, Brighton-le-Sands, Malabar and Middle Harbour.

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Harcourt Model Suburb

Subdivision in 1890 for the suburb of Campsie in Sydney bounded by Railway Station, Beamish Road, and Cook's River which was to have had wide avenues and large blocks of land.

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Hargrave Park

A reserve adjacent to Lawrence Hargrave Drive and The Hume Highway, Warwick Farm. In the 1950s and 1960s the site had been used for Aboriginal hostels for the people who came from the inner city because of the lack of housing.

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Reserve

Harold Park Paceway

Running grounds in Glebe which was developed in part of the Toxteth Estate in 1890 for pony racing, trotting and athletics. The course had various names and owners until it was named Harold Park after the imported American trotting horse Childe Harold in 1929. From 1929 to 1987 it also hosted greyhound race meetings. The venue closed in 2010 and is now the site of medium density housing.

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Racecourse

Sporting venue

Harrington Park

Far south-western residential suburb, subdivided in the late twentieth century from former agricultural land. It was built on land owned by Sir Warwick Fairfax, proprietor of the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Harrington Park Estate

Land on the Cumberland Plain south west of Sydney granted in 1813 to Captain Wiliam Campbell, in compensation for the loss of his ship the Harrington which had been stolen by escaping convicts in 1808.

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Estate

Harris Park

Residential suburb located adjacent to Parramatta, which was one of the first settlements in Sydney's west. It was the site of James Ruse's Experiment Farm, later purchased by New South Wales Corps surgeon John Harris.

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Hassall Grove

Western residential suburb north of Mount Druitt, subdivided by the New South Wales Housing Commission in the 1980s. It is named after the Rev. Thomas Hassall, 'the galloping parson', son-in-law of the Rev. Samuel Marsden.

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Hassell Park

Sportsground on the corner of Mona Vale Road and Mawson Street in St Ives.

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